Too Scared to Tell: Abused and alone, Oskar has no one. A true story.
By (Author) Cathy Glass
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
24th February 2020
20th February 2020
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Adoption and fostering: advice and issues
362.733092
Paperback
336
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 21mm
240g
The true story of a 6-year-old boy with a dreadful secret.
Oskars school teacher raises the alarm. Oskars mother is abroad and he has been left in the care of friends, but has been arriving in school hungry, unkempt, and with bruises on his arms, legs and body. Experienced foster carer Cathy Glass is asked to look after him, but as the weeks pass her concerns deepen. Oskar is far too quiet for a child of six and is clearly scared of something or someone.
And who are those men parked outside his school watching him
Cathy Glass is a pseudonym. She has been a foster carer for over 20 years, during which time she has looked after more than 100 children, of all ages and backgrounds. Cathy runs training courses on fostering for her local Social Services, and helps draft new fostering procedures and guidelines. Cathy has three teenage children of her own; one of whom, Lucy, was adopted after a long-term foster placement. Cathy has always had an interest in writing, combining fostering with occasional freelance journalism and commercial writing, usually when a particular issue stirs her passion. Before the success of Damaged she had written on health and social issues for the Guardian, the Evening Standard, Luton News, and the Hemel Gazette. She is also a published fiction writer, with poems and short stories published in a number of commercial magazines. Cathys books have been constantly in the best-seller charts since Damaged was published in 2007, having sold over 2 million copies across her titles worldwide.