Listen free for 30 days

  • Innocent

  • The True Story of Siblings Struggling to Survive
  • Written by: Cathy Glass
  • Narrated by: Denica Fairman
  • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (36 ratings)

Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo + applicable taxes after 30 days. Cancel anytime.
Innocent cover art

Innocent

Written by: Cathy Glass
Narrated by: Denica Fairman
Try for $0.00

$14.95 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for $30.09

Buy Now for $30.09

Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Tax where applicable.

Publisher's Summary

Innocent is the shocking true story of little Molly and Kit, siblings, aged three years and 18 months, who are brought into care as an emergency after suffering non-accidental injuries.

Aneta and Filip, the children’s parents, are distraught when their children are taken into care. Aneta maintains she is innocent of harming them, while Filip appears bewildered and out of his depth. It’s true the family has never come to the attention of the social services before, and little Kit and Molly appear to have been well looked after, but Kit has a broken arm and bruises on his face. Could it be they were a result of a genuine accident, as Aneta is claiming?

Both children become sick with a mysterious illness while experienced foster carer Cathy is looking after them. Very worried, she asks for more hospital tests to be done. They’ve already had a lot. When Cathy’s daughter, Lucy, becomes ill too she believes she has found the cause of Kit and Molly’s illness, and the parents aren’t to blame. However, nothing could be further from the truth, and what comes to light is far more sinister and shocking.

©2019 Cathy Glass (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

What listeners say about Innocent

Average Customer Ratings
Overall
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    30
  • 4 Stars
    4
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    29
  • 4 Stars
    2
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    2
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    27
  • 4 Stars
    3
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

excellent

I loved this book as I have loved every single one of her books ,.but I actually cringed every time the narrator said "I miss my mommy".....but I do adore her stories,and cathy and her family are truly beautiful people...

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

A great listen!

This is the first book in the Cathy Glass series I listened too and I plan to listen to them all. It is really great to see a kind woman like Cathy have been able to be such a great foster carer.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Amazing book

I really love Cathy Glass’ books she is a great author 💖 I wish tho the ending hadn’t ended so quickly

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

excellent story

thank you for sharing...
this is the first novel I have enjoyed through Autable. I was not disappointed.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    2 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    2 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    2 out of 5 stars

A frustrating experience, both in writing and obnoxious narration. I never want to hear “I want my mummy” spoken ever again.

What should be one of the most interesting cases of Cathy Glass’ work is instead the most frustrating book of hers I’ve ever read. It is apparent from the very first page what might be going on with the kids and their family, but Cathy is almost willfully oblivious. I recognize she’s a real person and isn’t getting the perspective of a reader, but she repeats and repeats and REPEATS her feelings and strange justifications for the behaviour of the mother. This repetition goes beyond the monotonousness of her usual work and becomes actively infuriating. I had to stop multiple times to claw at the air and spout Fred Flinstone swears in pure frustration with her.

The story is dragged out far too long for what it is, thanks to this endless regurgitation. Meanwhile, the narrator, normally very talented, made me want to tear my headphones off at numerous points with her squalling of the line “I want my mummy!” Over and over again in the least likeable way possible.

This book was hell at times to endure, but I did endure because at the core of the story (which takes way way way too long to be figured out by Cathy and for the narrative to reveal) is (spoilers from here on, though you should be able to figure this out it from page 1) that these young children are experiencing Munchausen by Proxy, one of the most disturbing things to ever happen to any children.

Unfortunately, that reveal, already obvious from the start, is basically the crux of the whole story. The judge in the case rules that the children are to be returned to their parents at the end. They treat Cathy coldly and that is all we know.

From what little I know of the mental illness that is MBP, there’s never been a successful treatment of the symptoms, and the children remain in danger their whole lives. Obviously Cathy doesn’t know anymore than what she can tell, and she allows some misgivings to come through in the story, but she also constantly harps on about the judge knowing best and the mother being so loving that perhaps it’ll all work out, despite her admitting before that Aneta’s love bordered on psychotic, was overly controlling, and that she remained so on the last few meetings she had with Cathy, even poisoning her husband against her despite him previously being kind and polite.

On the other hand, these sorts of fostering stories shouldn’t be expected to have happy endings, or even complete ones, given that they are told from the carer’s perspective and not the children’s. I sincerely hope that these two souls survive their mother’s abuse and manage to liberate themselves and tell that story someday. Still, Glass’s ending feels rushed and unfulfilling, especially after an overly drawn out book.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!