My Story Proves That Boarding School Can Be Better and Cheaper Than Being in Care ; Es Jobs

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SOPHIE Hawton is understandably vague about her father's death. She knows the facts, but the rest is a blur. Just 12 at the time, she was playing in her room with her younger brother Kit when they heard a crash and commotion downstairs.

From the landing they saw their father lying at the foot of the stairs, and their mother talking frantically on the phone. An ambulance came and took him away. Later, the doctors said he'd suffered a heart attack and died within hours.

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My Story Proves That Boarding School Can Be Better and Cheaper Than Being in Care ; Es Jobs

It was their mother who took it the worst. She became, in Sophie's words, "a recluse", hardly leaving the house and eventually taking to her bed. A year later she died in hospital, from what they were told was liver failure.

In the space of a year, Sophie and her brother, who is three years her junior, had lost both parents - but despite its tragic beginning, this is a story of hope.

Seven years later, Sophie, now 19, is a happy, bright and successful first-year pro...

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