Afraid to Tell
Heidi Harding · Tom Harding · Chloe Harding
July 2017 · Random House
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He was our abusive father.
We were just children.
No one could know.
Heidi was 18 when she read her little sister Chloe’s diary, and discovered that they shared a terrible secret: they had both been abused by their father. After years of fear and isolation, Heidi knew she had to go to the police.
For a long time, Chloe resented Heidi for forcing her to disclose what had happened when she wasn’t ready, while their brother, Tom, couldn’t understand how he had so misjudged his father, and at first he didn’t believe their tale. The truth threatened to destroy them all.
This is the very honest story of three siblings, and how a man they trusted threatened to tear their family apart.
We were just children.
No one could know.
Heidi was 18 when she read her little sister Chloe’s diary, and discovered that they shared a terrible secret: they had both been abused by their father. After years of fear and isolation, Heidi knew she had to go to the police.
For a long time, Chloe resented Heidi for forcing her to disclose what had happened when she wasn’t ready, while their brother, Tom, couldn’t understand how he had so misjudged his father, and at first he didn’t believe their tale. The truth threatened to destroy them all.
This is the very honest story of three siblings, and how a man they trusted threatened to tear their family apart.
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4.5
41 reviews
Beaner Bum
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4 October 2018
As a child of sexual abuse by a family member, it helped to read this sad but inspiring story. I hope, as I'm sure you do too, that this story might help another child in desperate need of help or an adult who was abused as a child. I know it helped me so thank you for your courage to tell your story.
15 people found this review helpful
Teresa Harris
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1 September 2017
This was so heartbreaking that two parents in a household and these signs and signals are still missed. Father's and mothers are to nurture and love your children, not have them live in fear.
16 people found this review helpful
andrea Wragsdale
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4 September 2019
I was abused by both parents we as children all were one commited suicide could not take any more this book touched my heart I felt for those children x
7 people found this review helpful
About the author
Heidi Harding (Author)
Chloe is a full-time mum to her two children, with another on the way. She is 29 and lives on the south coast with her partner.
Tom is 34, has two children and works as a business team leader. He is a passionate fisherman who says he could never live far from the sea.
Heidi is 36 and lives with her husband and child in London, where she works as an events manager and as a voluntary ambassador for a children's charity.
Jane Smith is a ghostwriter and writer of more than thirty published books, many of which have been Sunday Times top ten bestsellers.
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