Then, there was Gerda, eighty-two, who had suffered a massive stroke and was unwilling to engage in conversation with anyone.

Let's call Casandra, patient 1 whom Ms.Hayden experienced the most challenging time with. Torey Hayden's true story was a page-turner, though I took longer to read it, unfamiliar with the kind of illness though quite different in all three of the patients. At the centre of the book is the story of Cassandra, a nine year old girl who was kidnapped and abused by her father for two years and, by the time Hayden starts working with her, is ready to lash out at anyone who tries to befriend her. Drake, by contrast, was a charismatic four-year-old who managed to participate fully in his pre-school class without uttering a single word. Twilight Children was an education for me. In Twilight Children, Hayden tells three gripping stories. She refused to speak, so Torey could only imagine what she'd been through. 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. 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. Hayden Twilight Children: Three Voices No One Heard Until a Therapist Listened Kindle Edition by Torey Hayden (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 426 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 7.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Great on Kindle Great Experience.

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.

Twilight Children by Torey L. Hayden