Afraid: Be careful who you trust
Jan 2015 · Hachette UK
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'One of the bad girls of gritty crime' Daily Mirror
When fifteen-year-old Skye's mother finally does something so shocking that it can't be hushed up, the police turn Skye over to the social workers - and that's when the nightmare begins.
No one will let her talk to her father. And 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.
So when Jade offers Skye - now alone in Manchester and nearly penniless - a safe place to stay, Skye is willing to trust her. Even when it isn't Jade who turns up at the rendezvous, but a grown-up man who says he's Jade's brother . . .
'Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel' Martina Cole on Forget-Me-Not
'A cracking read that will chill you to the bone' Sun on Two-Faced
When fifteen-year-old Skye's mother finally does something so shocking that it can't be hushed up, the police turn Skye over to the social workers - and that's when the nightmare begins.
No one will let her talk to her father. And 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.
So when Jade offers Skye - now alone in Manchester and nearly penniless - a safe place to stay, Skye is willing to trust her. Even when it isn't Jade who turns up at the rendezvous, but a grown-up man who says he's Jade's brother . . .
'Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel' Martina Cole on Forget-Me-Not
'A cracking read that will chill you to the bone' Sun on Two-Faced
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4.5
136 reviews
Cassie Thomson
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January 9, 2015
I've waited for this book for a few month and I got that engrossed that I read it in one day. These things happen nowadays, it's a scary thought how easily they can happen. Well done Mandasue. You defo write thee best stories. Ermmm how long before your next one 😄
Kelly Roper
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January 21, 2016
read all of mandasue heller books and this has to be her best yet! just couldn't put it down and was excited to read on and see what was to happen next! pure brilliance and so so gripping!
Sian West
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January 10, 2015
I couldn't put it down. Completely different to her last novel. Can't wait for her next book. A fantastic read.
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About the author
Mandasue Heller was born in Cheshire and moved to Manchester in 1982. She spent ten years living in the notorious Hulme Crescents which have since become the background to her novels. Not only is she a talented writer, but she has also sung in cabaret and rock groups, seventies soul cover bands and blues jam bands.
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