Fractured

Social Workers: overworked, under-resourced, misunderstood. Still showing up.
Have you ever wondered what it might be like to work with some of the nation's most vulnerable children and families?
Jenny Hurst is a Child Protection Social Worker entrusted with the Season children. Can she support this family to stay together, without falling victim to her own burnout?
Lisa Season only ever wanted to be a mum. Is the prospect of having her children permanently removed enough to motivate her to make the changes necessary to avoid losing them?
All Autumn Season wants is to be part of a normal family, like her best friend, Starr. Will her mum do what it takes to keep Autumn and her siblings together?
Fractured is a novel informed by the authors' experiences of working in child protection social work in the UK and Australia.

Gemma Frances is a married mum from Newcastle upon Tyne, UK currently living in Melbourne, Australia. She's a writer by day, and a social worker with children and families by night. Her childhood dream of travelling the world as cabin crew was never quite realised, as her interview with a major airline was cancelled during the Global Financial Crisis, and she was left with an approved career break but nothing to do (which is probably for the best, as she now has a fear of flying!). Armed with a round-the-world flight and a suitcase (never a backpack), she travelled to Australia on a gap year, fell in love with her husband, and the rest is history.
Gemma's is the author of Meet Me At the Melbourne and The Debutante. Meet Me At The Melbourne, her debut novel, won Dick and Angel Strawbridge of the TV show Escape to the Chateau's Literature Competition in 2020 and was published through The Chateau Publishing Limited in 2021.