When fifteen-year-old Skye's mother finally does something so shocking that it can't be hushed up, the police turn her over to the social workers - and that's when the nightmare begins. No one will let her talk to her father; the woman who is supposed to be helping her dumps her in a terrifying 'home' that's more like a jail. But she still has one friend to turn to: the sympathetic girl she's met in an internet chat room, the one who seems to have a home life as unhappy as Skye's. And Jade offers her a safe place to stay ...Alone in Manchester, nearly penniless, Skye is willing to trust Jade. Even when it isn't Jade who turns up at the rendezvous, but a grown-up man who says he's Jade's brother ...
| ISBN: | 9781444769555 |
| Publication date: | 27th August 2015 |
| Author: | Mandasue Heller |
| Publisher: | Hodder Paperback an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton General Division |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 344 pages |
| Primary Genre | Thriller and Suspense |
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When fifteen-year-old Skye's mother finally does something so shocking that it can't be hushed up, the police turn her over to the social workers - and that's when the nightmare begins. No one will let her talk to her father; the woman who is supposed to be helping her dumps her in a terrifying 'home' that's more like a jail. But she still has one friend to turn to: the sympathetic girl she's met in an internet chat room, the one who seems to have a home life as unhappy as Skye's. And Jade offers her a safe place to stay ...Alone in Manchester, nearly penniless, Skye is willing to trust Jade. Even when it isn't Jade who turns up at the rendezvous, but a grown-up man who says he's Jade's brother ...
Afraid features in the following genres: Thriller and Suspense, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
Afraid is available in Paperback, Hardback
Afraid was written by Mandasue Heller and published by Hodder Paperback an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Afraid has 344 pages
£8.09
