Torey Hayden
Torey Hayden (born 1951 in Livingston, Montana, USA) is a child psychologist, special education teacher, university lecturer and writer who has written books about children under her care. Hayden moved from the USA to Wales in 1980. She married a Scottish man in 1982 and had a daughter Sheena in 1985. She lives currently in Scotland. Hayden writes fictionalized accounts of her real-life experiences with teaching children with special needs. Her pupils have been autistic, with Tourette syndrome or victims of sexual abuse and fetal alcohol syndrome.
Books: One Child (1980)Somebody Else’s Kids (1981)Murphy’s Boy (1983) The Sunflower Forest (fiction, 1984)Just Another Kid (1988)Ghost Girl (1991)The Tiger’s Child (1995)The Mechanical Cat (fiction, 1999)*(not published in English but in Swedish, Italian, Finnish and Japanese)Beautiful Child (2002)The Very Worst Thing (fiction, 2003)
External links: Official/personal page
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