Torey Hayden

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Victoria Lynn Hayden, known as Torey L. Hayden (born May 21, 1951 in Livingston, Montana, USA), is a child psychologist, special education teacher, university lecturer and writer of non-fiction books based on her real-life experiences with teaching and counselling children with special needs.[1]

Subjects covered in her books include autism, Tourette syndrome, sexual abuse, fetal alcohol syndrome, and selective mutism, her specialty.

She has also written three books of fiction in addition to her non-fiction books (see below).

Hayden moved from the USA to Wales in the 1980s, and now lives in the north of that country. She is divorced with a grown-up daughter.[2]

[edit] Works

One Child (1980)[3]
Somebody Else’s Kids (1981)[4]
Murphy’s Boy (1983)[5]
The Sunflower Forest (fiction, 1984)[6]
Just Another Kid (1988)[7]
Ghost Girl (1991)[8]
The Tiger’s Child (1995)[9]
The Mechanical Cat (fiction, 1999)[10]
- (not published in English but in Swedish, Italian, Finnish, Japanese, and Indonesian)
Beautiful Child (2002)[11]
The Very Worst Thing (fiction, 2003)[12]
Twilight Children (2005)[13]

[edit] Trivia

The book Ghost Girl was at the centre of a controversial court case in Sweden, which saw several innocent persons sentenced to lengthy jail terms based on incest and pedophilia accusations, fabricated by the "victims" while under the influence of an unlicensed "therapist". When the descriptions of the crimes, including ritual murder, were later revealed to be false and, in fact, taken almost literally from the book, the accused were exonerated.