The Girl and the Ghosts Part 3 of 3: The true story of a haunted little girl and the foster carer who rescued her from the past

by Angela Hart

Overview

The Girl and the Ghosts can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.
This is PART 3 of 3.

Author Angela Hart is an experienced foster carer; The Girl and the Ghosts is the moving true story of her experience fostering one little girl with a heavy burden to carry.

Seven-year-old Maria holds lots of secrets. Why won’t she tell how she got the bruises on her body? Why does she run and hide? And why does she so want to please her sinister stepfather?
It takes years for devoted foster carer Angela Hart to uncover the truth as she helps Maria leave the ghosts of her past behind.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781509865956
Publisher:	Pan Macmillan
Publication date:	05/04/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	913 KB

About the Author

Angela Hart, who writes under a pseudonym, is a specialist foster carer for children with complex needs. Along with her husband Jonathan she has fostered more than fifty children in the past twenty-seven years. Her first book, Terrified, was a top ten Sunday Times bestseller.

Angela Hart lives in England with her husband Jonathan. They met at a village dance when they were teenagers in the seventies, and shortly afterwards they both moved away from their hometown for work. Angela loved the bright lights of the city, and her demanding job in a bank. They stayed for ten years before returning home to take over Angela's family floristry business from her parents.

One day an advert in the local paper caught Angela's eye: 'Foster Carers Wanted'. She knew straight away it was something she'd love to do. As a child she had a friend whose family took in foster children and had often asked her mother if they could do the same, but she always said she wasn't cut out for it, and didn't have the patience. After living a fast-paced life Angela felt she could easily manage to sell flowers and care for youngsters. Having a family was something Jonathan and Angela planned for the future; they thought that surely fostering was just like bringing up your own children, if not easier?

Looking back, they feel incredibly naïve. They were convinced fostering kids would be like caring for flowers: if they provided the right environment, nourished the children well and treated them with love and respect, everything would be rosy. They could foster for a few years, and maybe even carry on when they started their 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. Angela and Jonathan found themselves immersed in a care system they knew nothing about, yet soon found impossible to leave.

They thrived on the challenges and rewards of being foster carers, and Angela went on to train as a specialist carer for teenagers with complex needs, and has never looked back. Jonathan and Angela have fostered more than fifty children over the past twenty-seven years and they hope you will enjoy reading about some of the wonderful children they have been privileged to have in their lives.