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Twilight Children: Three Voices No One Heard - Until Someone Listened
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Twilight Children: Three Voices No One Heard - Until Someone Listened
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Torey Hayden
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:416 | Dimensions(mm): Height 178,Width 111 |
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Category/Genre | Biographies and autobiography |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780007198207
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Classifications | Dewey:362.760922 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
HarperCollins Publishers
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Imprint |
HarperCollins
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Publication Date |
2 January 2007 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
From the author of the phenomenal Sunday Times bestsellers 'One Child' and 'Ghost Girl', comes a startling and poignant memoir of three people's victimisation and abuse - and their heartbreaking but ultimately successful steps to recovery, with the help of Torey Hayden, an extraordinary teacher. Two children trapped in a prison of silence and a woman suffering in the twilight of her years - these are the cases that would test the extraordinary courage, compassion and skill of Torey Hayden and ultimately reaffirm her faith in the indomitable strength of the human spirit. While working in the children's psychiatric ward of a large hospital, Torey was introduced to seven-year-old Cassandra, a child who had been kidnapped by her father and was found dirty, starving and picking though rubbish bins to survive. She refused to speak, so Torey could only imagine what she'd been through. Drake, by contrast, was a charismatic four-year-old who managed to participate fully in his pre-school class without uttering a single word. Then, there was Gerda, eighty-two, who had suffered a massive stroke and was unwilling to engage in conversation with anyone. Although Torey had never worked with adults, she agreed to help when all other efforts had failed.
Author Biography
Torey Hayden is an educational psychologist and a special education teacher who, since 1979, has chronicled her struggles in the classroom in a succession of bestselling books. She currently lives and writes in North Wales with her daughter.
Reviews'Hayden's books are unapologetic tear-jerkers.' The Times T2 'Torey Hayden deserves the kind of respect I can't give many people. She isn't valuable, she's incredible. The world needs more like Torey Hayden.' - Boston Globe
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