Runaway Girl: A beautiful girl. Trafficked for sex. Is there nowhere to hide?
Written by Casey Watson
Narrated by Kate Lock
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
Fourteen-year-old Adrianna arrives on Casey’s doorstep with no possessions, no English, and no explanation. It will be a few weeks before Casey starts getting the shocking answers to her questions….
Brought to Casey as a short-term emergency placement, fourteen-year-old Adrianna arrives with nothing but her gratitude. Having ‘turned herself in’ to a social services office some hundred miles away, she has no possessions, no English and, apparently, no history – not that she’s willing to share, anyway. She is a beautiful young Polish girl, with the bearing of a ballerina, but is terrified, malnourished and unwell. And, having slept rough for some time (the little they do know about her) she spends much of her first days with Watsons asleep in bed.
Growing concerned about Adrianna’s wellbeing, and her persistent high temperature, Casey decides to call in the GP. But, to her surprise, Adrianna becomes almost hysterical about being examined and, given her refusal to talk – even via the interpreter they’ve brought in for her – Casey’s fostering antennae begin twitching. Where has she come from? And why is she so terrified to be touched? What has happened to make her so ill and scared?
It will be a few weeks before Casey starts getting answers to these questions. Shocking answers; ones that throw up a whole host of new questions and the beginnings of a journey to find justice for Adrianna, and, more importantly, a future, and a home…
Casey Watson
Casey Watson, who writes under a pseudonym, is a specialist foster carer. She and her husband, Mike, look after children who are particularly troubled or damaged by their past. Before becoming a foster carer Casey was a behaviour manager for her local comprehensive school. It was through working with these ‘difficult’ children – removed from mainstream classes for various reasons – that the idea for her future career was born. Casey is married with two children and three grandchildren.
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Reviews for Runaway Girl
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This work is such a testament to the strength and courage of one young person, and the power of choice to override the evil done to her. Let it give us hope…
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wow!! What an Ordeal that poor girl went through but I'm so pleased that it all worked out & she managed to fight for Ethan, & Adriana nearly dying like that it's yet another amazing but yet utterly heartbreaking that all this goes on & the police can't get them ?.... If only there were more foster carers like yourself, Cathy Glass plus a few more that I've heard of through listening to you both, the harrowing thing's that you have to support these poor kid's through, I can't imagine what that must be like for yourselves going through it with these kid's I honestly don't know how you do it but I'm very glad that you do. I love your book's I'm sure your an inspiration to the kid's you & Mike have fostered & supported & got them through a very traumatic time in their lives & I'm sure that they're all very grateful for you both. ??
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is the 3rd book by this author that I have read and it does not disappiont! Truly inspirational woman!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book had a SLOW start. But it was actually really good. I almost put it down. But I'm glad I didnt.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Story was good...narrator made Adrianna, the polish girl sound whiny, was hard to listen to!