Long way from home. Cathy Glass. 2018.

Elaine and Ian had travelled half way round the world to adopt little Anna. She couldn’t have been more wanted, loved and cherished. So why was she now in foster care and living with me? It didn’t make sense.

Until I learned what had happened…….

Dressed only in nappies and ragged T-shirts, the children in the orphanage  were incarcerated in their cots. Their large eyes stared out blankly from emaciated faces. The silence was defeating and unnatural. Not one of the thirty or so infants cried, let alone spoke.