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A big thank-you to my family; my editors, Carolyn and Holly; my literary agent, Andrew; my UK publishers HarperCollins, and my overseas publishers, who are now too numerous to list by name. Last, but definitely not least, a big thank-you to my readers for your unfailing support and kind words. They are much appreciated.
A third of children who have
been sexually abused never tell.
Contents
1 Cover
2 Title Page
3 Copyright
4 Acknowledgements
5 Epigraph
6 Contents
7 Chapter One: Being Watched
8 Chapter Two: Anxious
9 Chapter Three: Protecting Oskar
10 Chapter Four: Stressed and Tense
11 Chapter Five: You Know Those Men?
12 Chapter Six: Wary
13 Chapter Seven: Very Concerned
14 Chapter Eight: Preoccupied
15 Chapter Nine: A Strange Reunion
16 Chapter Ten: Contact
17 Chapter Eleven: Not Safe
18 Chapter Twelve: Mr Nowak
19 Chapter Thirteen: Review
20 Chapter Fourteen: Distraught
21 Chapter Fifteen: They Made Me
22 Chapter Sixteen: Questioned by the Police
23 Chapter Seventeen: Sickening
24 Chapter Eighteen: Family
25 Chapter Nineteen: Therapy
26 Chapter Twenty: Family
27 Chapter Twenty-One: Good and Bad News
28 Chapter Twenty-Two: Adoption
29 Chapter Twenty-Three: Photographs
30 Chapter Twenty-Four: Break My Heart
31 Chapter Twenty-Five: Unsettled
32 Chapter Twenty-Six: Court Case
33 Chapter Twenty-Seven: Retiring?
34 Chapter Twenty-Eight: Leaving
35 Chapter Twenty-Nine: Unexpected News
36 Suggested topics for reading-group discussion
37 Cathy Glass
39 Praise for Cathy Glass
40 About the Publisher
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