Terrified: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Girl Nobody Loved and the Woman Who

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The first book in a series by foster mum Angela Hart who, along with her husband Jonathan, has fostered over fifty children in the past 27 years.

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A Sunday Times bestseller, Terrified is the first book from well-loved foster carer Angela Hart.It tells the emotionally devastating but ultimately uplifting true story of Vicky, a little girl who arrives on Angela's doorstep unwanted and unloved after suffering years of emotional abuse at the hands of her mother. Desperate never to return home, Vicky is haunted by many demons and waking nightmares.This book tells the moving story of Angela's determination to set Vicky free.'A no holds barred insight into the reality of looking after someone else's children. A remarkable story from a remarkable woman, it brought back a lot of memories for me.' - Casey Watson, author of A Dark Secret.'A moving story that testifies to the redemptive power of love. I hope Angela Hart inspires many others to foster.' - Torey Hayden, author of Lost Child.

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The first book in a series by foster mum Angela Hart who, along with her husband Jonathan, has fostered over fifty children in the past twenty-seven years.

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'A moving story that testifies to the redemptive power of love. I hope Angela Hart inspires many others to foster' Torey Hayden, Sunday Times bestselling author Vicky stared through the windscreen, her eyeballs glazed like marbles. She was sitting completely rigid in her seat, frozen with fear. I took a deep breath and then asked Vicky, as gently as possible, if she was alright. 'I'm here, right beside you, Vicky. Can you hear me? I'm here and I can help you. ' She still didn't respond in any way at all. Her normally rosy cheeks had turned ivory white and the expression of terror on her face was like nothing I'd seen before: I had never seen a child look so scared in all my life. 'Take a deep breath, love. That's what I've just done. Just breathe and try to calm yourself down. You're with me, Angela, and you're safe.' Vicky seemed all self-assurance and swagger when she came to live with Angela and Jonathan as a temporary foster placement. As Vicky's mask of bravado began to slip, she was overtaken with episodes of complete terror. Will the trust and love Angela and her husband Jonathan provide enable Vicky to finally overcome her shocking past?

Author Biography

One day an advert in the local paper caught my eye: 'Foster Carers Wanted'. I knew straight away it was something I'd love to do. As a child I had a friend whose family took in foster children, and I had often asked my mother if we could do the same. I was convinced fostering kids would be like caring for flowers: if we provided the right environment, nourished them well and treated them with love and respect, everything would be rosy. We could foster for a few years, and maybe even carry on when we started our own family. Of course, it wasn't like that at all! Each child had a unique set of problems, some incredibly sad, others very shocking. We found ourselves immersed in a care system we knew nothing about, yet soon found impossible to leave.I thrived on the challenge and rewards of being a foster mum, and when I discovered several years on that I was not able to have children of my own, I didn't miss a beat. By then I had trained as a specialist carer for teenagers with complex needs, and I have never looked back, fostering more than 50 children over the past 27 years.

Table of Contents

Section - 1: 'What have we done?' Section - 2: 'I'm not staying long' Section - 3: 'She was always there for me' Section - 4: 'My mum frightened me' Section - 5: 'I had to lie to keep myself' Section - 6: 'STOP! I'M GETTING OUT...!' Section - 7: 'She made me watch' Section - 8: 'Vicky can go to hell!' Section - 9: 'You're the biggest mistake I ever made' Section - 10: 'I don't want to know about Vicky' Section - 11: 'It's too much to take' Section - 12: 'You don't know how much she terrified me' Section - 13: 'When I was living with her I had to be resourceful' Section - 14: 'My head hurt a lot when I was little' Section - 15: 'I don't want to talk about it or think about it or ANYTHING!' Section - 16: 'It was our mum who did this' Section - 17: 'It's not fair! It's torture!' Section - 18: 'I used to live in a scary house' Section - 19: 'Everything is different' Section - i: Epilogue

Review

Angela Hart gives a no holds barred insight into the reality of looking after someone else's children. A remarkable story from a remarkable woman, it brought back a lot of memories for me. * Casey Watson, Sunday Times bestselling author *A moving story that testifies to the redemptive power of love. I hope Angela Hart inspires many others to foster. * Torey Hayden, Sunday Times bestselling author *A true tear-jerking tale of love and compassion. * Sunday Mirror *

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The first book in a series by foster mum Angela Hart who, along with her husband Jonathan, has fostered over fifty children in the past 27 years.

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A moving story that testifies to the redemptive power of love. I hope Angela Hart inspires many others to foster.

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The first book in a series by foster mum Angela Hart who, along with her husband Jonathan, has fostered over fifty children in the past 27 years.

Details ISBN1509805516 Author Angela Hart Short Title TERRIFIED Language English ISBN-10 1509805516 ISBN-13 9781509805518 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2016 Imprint Bluebird Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 362.733092 Edition Main Market Ed. Audience Age 18 Series Angela Hart Subtitle The Heartbreaking True Story of a Girl Nobody Loved and the Woman Who Saved Her UK Release Date 2016-03-10 Pages 336 Publisher Pan Macmillan Publication Date 2016-03-10 Audience General AU Release Date 2016-03-07 NZ Release Date 2016-03-07 We've got this

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