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Torey Hayden Biography & Facts
Victoria Lynn Hayden, known as Torey L. Hayden (born 21 May 1951 in Livingston, Montana, U.S.), is a special education teacher, university lecturer and writer of non-fiction books based on her real-life experiences with teaching and counseling children with special needs and also of fiction books. Subjects covered in her books include autism, Tourette syndrome, sexual abuse, fetal alcohol syndrome, and elective mutism (now called selective mutism), her specialty. Biography Hayden attended high school in Billings, Montana and graduated in 1969. She attended Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. She received a master's degree in special education from Montana State University Billings in 1975 and moved to University of Minnesota in Minneapolis for a doctorate in educational psychology. While there, she also worked with the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the university hospitals. Hayden moved to Wales in 1980 and married a Scotsman named Ken in 1982. In 1985 they had a daughter (Sheena). Hayden is divorced. In Wales Hayden has worked primarily with charities associated with child neglect and abuse, including Childline, the NSPCC, the Samaritans and the Citizens' Advice Bureau. She has written five books of fiction in addition to her non-fiction books (see below). Works Non-fiction One Child (1980) Somebody Else’s Kids (1981) Murphy’s Boy (1983) / Silent Boy (British title for Murphy's Boy) Just Another Kid (1988) Ghost Girl (1991) The Tiger’s Child (1995) Beautiful Child (2002) Twilight Children (2005) Lost Child (2019) The Invisible Girl (2021) Fiction The Sunflower Forest (1984) The Mechanical Cat (1998) / Overheard In A Dream (English title for The Mechanical Cat) The Very Worst Thing (2003) Innocent Foxes (2011) (In UK) References. Discover the Torey Hayden popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Torey Hayden books.
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Hidden
Cathy GlassFrom the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of ‘Damaged’ comes the poignant and shocking memoir of Cathy’s recent relationship with Tayo, a young boy she fosters wh...
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Triumph Over Adversity 3-in-1 Collection
Casey Watson, Torey Hayden & Mary MacCrackenFor the first time, Casey Watson’s The Girl Without a Voice, Torey Hayden’s Beautiful Child and Mary MacCracken’s Lovey are combined in an exclusive ebook bundle. Discover the movi...
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Tiny Prisoners
Maggie HartleyEvie and Elliot are scrawny, filthy and wideeyed with fear when they turn up on foster carer Maggie Hartley's doorstep. Aged just two and three years old, this brother and sister h...
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The Little Ghost Girl
Maggie HartleyAbused, starved and neglected. Ruth was a little ghost of a girl when she arrived into foster mother Maggie Hartley's care. As soon as Ruth arrived on her doorstep, it was clear t...
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Mummy Told Me Not to Tell
Cathy GlassWhen Reece arrives at Cathy's door aged 7 years old, he has already passed through the hands of four different carers in four weeks. As the details of his short life emerge, it bec...
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Cut
Cathy GlassMillioncopy bestselling author Cathy Glass tells the story of Dawn, a sweet and seemingly wellbalanced girl whose outward appearance masks a traumatic childhood of suffering at the...