Terrified

Angela Hart

• 10 maart 2016
• 9781509805518

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The Sunday Times bestseller, a true story of trauma, determination and strength from foster mum Angela Hart.

'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?

What lengths would you go to to save a troubled little girl?

A Sunday Times bestseller, Terrified is a deeply personal memoir from 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.

A tearjerking true story, Terrified is Angela's moving account of her determination to set Vicky free.

'A no holds barred insight into the reality of looking after someone else's children' – Casey Watson, author of Little Girl Lost

'A moving story that testifies to the redemptive power of love. I hope Angela Hart inspires many others to foster' – Torey Hayden, author of One Child

Discover more inspiring stories from Angela Hart in The Girl and the Ghosts and The Girl in the Dark.