Too Hurt to Stay: The True Story of a Troubled Boy’s Desperate Search for a Loving Home

Casey Watson

Oct 2012 · Sold by HarperCollins UK

About this ebook

The fourth title from Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson.

Eight-year-old Spencer takes himself to social services and demands to be taken into care. It’s a desperate act, a cry for help, but his parent’s reaction – good riddance – speaks volumes. Casey’s hackles are immediately up for this poor child.

Spencer is the middle child of four siblings. His parents claim all their other kids are ‘normal’ and that Spencer was born ‘vicious and evil’. Casey and her family are disgusted – kids aren’t born evil, they get damaged. Although when vigilante neighbours start to take action and their landlord threatens eviction, Casey is stretched to the limits, trying desperately to hold on to this boy who causes so much pain and destruction.

Casey is determined to try and understand what Spencer is going through and help him find the loving home he is so desperately searching for. But it’s only when Spencer’s mother gets in touch with social services for the first time that gradually everything starts to make sense.

Ratings and reviews

Case gives us Spencer's story bite by bite as it unfolds to her, meanwhile she has to keep the lid on this boy's evil deeds without knowing all the facts. This kept me glued through the highs and lows of the book, crying for him, and for her.

Please help! This is like the 5th book i have tried to read that won't open. It keeps saying an unexpected error happened and is forced to shut down. Not every book does this but nonetheless i paid for it, so i would like to get a chance to read it. Please help me fix this issue.

Have downloaded the book as have loved Casey Watson's last three. However started to read only to discover that it is Mick jaggers autobiography! Would like the proper book please!

About the author

Casey Watson is a specialist foster carer. She has been working in this field for six years after giving up her position as a behaviour manager for a local school. During this time she has welcomed 14 difficult to place children into her home.

As a specialist foster carer she works with profoundly damaged children, seeing each child through a specific behavioural modification programme, at the end of which they will hopefully be in the position to be returned either back to their family or into mainstream foster care.

Casey combines fostering with writing, usually late at night when the rest of the family is sleeping.

Casey is married with two grown-up children and three grandchildren.

The name Casey Watson is a pseudonym.