num_pages: 43
description: Bestselling author and foster carer Casey Watson tells the shocking and deeply moving true story of two sisters who carry a terrible secret.This is a first taste of the Unit series: several stories about difficult children Casey helped during her time as a behaviour manager at her local comprehensive.Casey doesnt know what to expect when seventeen-year-old twins Scarlett and Jade join her class. The girls seem grounded but they never leave each others side although there seems to be an underlying tension between them that Casey cant quite put her finger on. Whats more Jade has a strong unpleasant smell about her that further isolates her from the other teenagers.Eager to help the girls Casey starts digging and finds out that Jade was pregnant and that the girls were taken into care when they were sixteen. But its not until a violent argument during class that Casey truly realises the anger the two girls harbour towards the rest of the world. And when Scarlett finally reveals the truth it suddenly all makes sense.Can Casey find a way to bring Scarlett and Jade closer together? And can she break down Jades walls and get the girls the help they have craved since their childhood?Dark disturbing and heartbreaking this is a story of two sisters who just needed someone to believe in them.
language: English
title: Scarlett's Secret: A real-life short story by Casey Watson
publisher: Harper Element