Promise
When a new family moves in next door, it takes Anna just two days to realise something is very wrong.
She can hear their five-year old daughter Charlie crying, then sees injuries on the little girl that she cannot ignore. Anna reports the family to the police and social services, but no one comes to Charlie’s aid.
So when the girl turns up at her door asking for help, the only thing Anna can think to do is to take her and run.
Raising deeply felt questions about our responsibility for the children around us, PROMISE asks: if Charlie were my neighbour, what would I do?
“With fierce integrity, Armstrong has written a contemporary story that absolutely needs telling.”
