Terrified
- Author
- Angela Hart
- Narrator
- Alison Campbell
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 15 October 2026
- Run Time
- 10 hours
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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.
Critics Review
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Angela Hart gives a no holds barred insight into the reality of looking after someone else's children. A remarkable story from a remarkable woman, it brought back a lot of memories for me
Casey Watson, Sunday Times bestselling author of Little Girl Lost
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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 of One Child
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A true tear-jerking tale of love and compassion
Sunday Mirror
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Details
- Author
- Angela Hart
- Narrator
- Alison Campbell
- Duration
- 10 hours
- Release Date
- 15 October 2026
- ISBN
- 9781037427923
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Memoirs, Adoption and fostering, Child abuse, True stories of survival of abuse and injustice, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Autobiography: general
Synopsis
<p><b>What lengths would you go to to save a troubled little girl?</b><br><br>A <i>Sunday Times</i> bestseller,<i> Terrified</i> is a deeply personal memoir from foster carer Angela Hart. <br><br>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.<br><br>A tearjerking true story, <i>Terrified</i> is Angela's moving account of her determination to set Vicky free.<br><br><b>'A no holds barred insight into the reality of looking after someone else's children' – Casey Watson, author of <i>Little Girl Lost</i></b><br><br><b>'A moving story that testifies to the redemptive power of love. I hope Angela Hart inspires many others to foster' – Torey Hayden, author of<i> One Child</i></b><br><br>Discover more inspiring stories from Angela Hart in <i>The Girl and the Ghosts </i>and<i> The Girl in the Dark</i>.</p>
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