Twilight Children

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From the author of the phenomenal Sunday Times bestsellers One Child & Ghost Girl comes a startling & poignant memoir of three peoples victimisation & abuse -- & 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 & a woman suffering in the twilight of her years -- these are the cases that would test the extraordinary courage compassion & skill of Torey Hayden & ultimately reaffirm her faith in the indomitable strength of the human spirit. While working in the childrens psychiatric ward of a large hospital Torey was introduced to seven-year-old Cassandra a child who had been kidnapped by her father & was found dirty starving & picking though rubbish bins to survive. She refused to speak so Torey could only imagine what shed 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 & 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.