Looking After Mum

by Sarah Franklin

Lucy Gosling is a twelve year old child carer, who is looking after her mum who has, C.F.S/M.E. All Lucy has ever wanted is to be like any other twelve year old and go out shopping, go out with friends, and go for sleepovers, but for Lucy this is just a dream, until one day, Lucy decides it is down to her to help her mum get better... no matter what the cost. Based on a true story.

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First published October 9, 2010

About the author

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Elrena Evans holds an MFA from The Pennsylvania State University, and is co-editor of Mama, Ph.D.: Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life (Rutgers University Press, 2008). Her writing has also appeared in Brain, Child, Hip Mama, MotherVerse, Literary Mama, Mamazine, and the anthologies Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers (Random House, 2006) and How to Fit a Car Seat on a Camel (Seal Press, 2008). She is the Marketing and Publicity Manager for Literary Mama, where she also writes the monthly column Me and My House. She lives in Pennsylvania with her family and blogs at her website, http://www.elrenaevans.com. "