Long Way From Home

The true story of 2-year-old Anna, abandoned by her natural parents, left alone in a neglected orphanage. Elaine and Ian had travelled halfway round the world to adopt little Anna. They immediately fell in love with her but with no experience of looking after children and wanting to make up for Anna’s past suffering they gave in to her constant demands and she quickly became unmanageable. When her parents couldn’t cope any longer she had to go into foster care. I was her third foster carer in a week and despite my best efforts and years of experience looking after children it seemed there was little I could do to help her.