A girl whose obsession with birds stems from her abuse and abandonment by her mother as a young child finds stability and love in her new foster home.

Sue Atkinson, author of the highly acclaimed 'Climbing Out of Depression' and 'Building Self-Esteem', turns her attention to the subject of sexual and emotional abuse. Writing from her own experience, she gets alongside survivors to offer hope and guidance.

Five years after two twelve-year-old girls go missing, their friend is still haunted by their unknown fate and begins to unravel the truths behind the mystery.

Sir Alfred has a terrible secret.

Abused from the age of eight by her older brother and then her step-father, Maureen Wood quickly became numb to the constant suffering. But Maureen's world crumbled when her own mother started to abuse her too. 'A Family Secret' is the harrowing true story of how one little girl survived sickening abuse by the people who should have loved her most, and how an innocent baby finally saved her.

British Library cover celebrating 30 years of the story of a young genius girl develops who psychic powers and uses them to get revenge on her parents and terrifying headteacher.

Growing up in Dublin, Aidan Storey was a much-loved, happy child. The only difference was that Aidan was visited by angels. Unafraid of the beautiful, luminous spirits who watched over him, it wasn't until later that he realized not everyone could see what he could see and not everyone shared what was to prove to be a gift for healing.

In 1976, Bernard Beaumont spirited 11-year-old Kim Chown and her brother away from their mother to Africa, where he had taken a job as a university lecturer. And there, behind a veneer of respectability, he terrorised and brutalised his own child, Kim, raping her several times a day, making her pregnant and performing DIY abortions before threatening to kill her. Only aged 20 did Kim feel able to escape from him and she descended into alcoholism,...

Ever since she can remember Becky has been afraid. Growing up in a deeply troubled family, her home was a place of suffering. Behind closed doors she was subjected to cruelty and humiliation at the hands of the one person who should have loved and protected her - Sylvia, her mother. Unbeknown to Becky until adulthood, Sylvia displayed all the signs of being a psychopath, whilst giving the illusion of normalcy to the outside world. Becky grew up feeling...

It's late on Friday night when Casey's mobile starts to ring. She is expecting it to be her daughter Riley. But it isn't Riley. It's a woman from the Emergency Duty Team. So begins Casey and Mike's latest fostering challenge - a fifteen-year-old girl called Keeley who's run away from her long-term foster home 25 miles away.