Book description
From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a harrowing and moving
memoir about two innocent and frightened 'unfosterable' children who do
not know what it means to be loved.
This is the third book in the series.
The shock that strikes Casey and her family when Ashton and Olivia
arrive is immeasurable. Two dirty, frightened little waifs stand before
them, huge eyes staring around their new surroundings. Ashton - 9,
Olivia - 6, have the same urchin look; hair running wild with head lice,
filthy nails and skin covered in scabs. And the smell is horrific. The
eldest two children of a group of five siblings, Casey had only been
told they were coming two days earlier. But it was an emergency,
temporary placement, and they were only due to stay a couple of weeks…
Casey is desperate to help these poor, lost children, who have been
taken away from their family because they were considered at risk, but
before she can even start to understand the horrific things that have
happened in the past, she has to teach them the most basic of
behaviours. Ashton and Olivia have no barriers and no sense of what's
right and wrong - her challenges begin with the toilet and eating habits.
The weeks roll into months and the months roll on, but bit by bit the
children are starting to feel like they truly belong to a family, for
the first time. With this new found security and love, gradually they
start to reveal what really happened to them and their siblings at home,
and slowly Casey can help them start to rebuild their young lives.
Includes a sample chapter of Too Hurt To Stay. Casey Watson is a
specialist foster carer. She has been working in this field for six
years after giving up her position as a behaviour manager for a local
school. During this time she has welcomed 14 difficult to place children
into her home.
As a specialist foster carer she works with profoundly damaged
children, seeing each child through a specific behavioural modification
programme, at the end of which they will hopefully be in the position to
be returned either back to their family or into mainstream foster care.
Casey combines fostering with writing, usually late at night when the
rest of the family is sleeping.
Casey is married with two grown-up children and three grandchildren.
The name Casey Watson is a pseudonym.
