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Twilight Children: The True Story of Three Voices No One Heard - Until Someone Listened (Hardcover)

by Torey L. Hayden (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Harper Element (7 Nov 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007198191
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007198191
  • Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.4 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 99,459 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Hayden's books are unapologetic tear-jerkers" The Times T2 "Torey Hayden deserves the kind of respect I can't give many people. She isn't just valuable she is incredible. The world needs more like Torey Hayden." - Boston Globe

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From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller One Child, 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 educational psychologist. In Twilight Children, Hayden tells three gripping stories. 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. Running parallel to Cassandra's story is that of four-year-old Drake who won't speak to anyone except his mother. The third narrative is about Gerda, an elderly women who, after suffering a stroke, refuses to free herself from her self-imposed silence and crippling depression. Told with compassion, sensitivity, and, believe it or not, humour, Twilight Children is the story of one woman's fierce determination, the struggles of three people, and their amazing road to recovery. Torey Hayden is an educationalist whose work centres around elective mutes and especially children who won't speak due to a trauma in their lives.

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A feast, 3 Feb 2006
I love Torey Hayden's books. I have read everything she has ever written and am hungry for more. Although the themes of her books are much of a muchness, every one of them comes across as fresh and new. She has a way of drawing you into her stories and making you feel a part of her experiences. As the parent of a special needs child myself (my son has Asperger's Syndrome) I can empathise a lot with what she encounters. I just wish we could have had someone like her in our lives!
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars FANTASTIC READ, 29 Aug 2006
By J. WALKER (YORKSHIRE) - See all my reviews
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I do not agree with the last reviewer's rather harsh comments. Many of Torey Hayden's readers work in similar environments and respect the work she does.

Torey has had great success with all the children she has worked with and is very experienced in her field.

I have read most of the books by Torey Hayden with great interest and respect her choice to bring to the world's attention the suffering of abused children. It may be a disturbing read but no confidences are broken. Maybe it is Torey's individual and brave approach she takes towards the children which ensures her continued success as a therapist and an author.

I recommend this book and previous books by Torey to any reader and promise you once you start reading them you will want to read all her books.

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21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Sound of Silence - Resounding Silence, 8 Nov 2005
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The three people featured in this book have very disparate needs, yet all are bound by a common thread - silence in varying degrees. Cassandra, 9 was kidnapped by her father when she was 5. Two years after being kidnapped, she was found foraging in garbage cans outside of a small store. She was then returned to her mother, sisters and stepfather. Violent outbursts and erratic behavior led to her being admitted to an in-patient unit. While on the unit, Cassandra's behavior includes lying. She was also described as being able to identify others' weak spots and use them. Her behavior had reached such a critical point on the ward where she was spending much of her time in "lockdown" or seclusion, especially after she accused staff of sexual molestation and harped on molestation themes to another child who had no known history of sexual abuse. Efforts to separate Cassandra from the other child became part of her treatment, as did identifying feelings; naming the real abusers; defining boundaries and setting limits and helping her piece her memories together lead Cassandra to greater progress.

Gerda, 82 suffered from a stroke which affected her ability to speak. When she did speak, it was of her memories of living during the early 20th century; the loss of several siblings and the countryside as she remembered from her peripatetic travels in girlhood. Records from the local census bureau confirm her accounts; Gerda's progress is spurred even further by this additional interest.

Four-year-old Drake also has speech issues. Like Gerda, his condition was purely physical. A congenital vocal cord condition affected his ability to produce words and use his mouth muscles for activities such as blowing bubbles and licking ice cream. Popular in pre-school and described as having no behavioral issues, Drake travels with his ubiquitous toy tiger. After evaluating and observing Drake's progress in pre-school, it was decided that he be evaulated at the same hospital where Cassandra is a patient.

Unlike Cassandra, Drake is not described as presenting psychiatric issues and he seems to adapt to his surroundings. On one occasion, he gets to leave the hospital for an afternoon to visit Gerda, whose speech accelerates upon her delight at his visit. Gerda's accounts of her youth are especially touching and reading of this senior's progress alongside of two very young clients makes for a very pleasant bond indeed. Regardless of age, these people all shared the common thread of good humanity and the basic desire to communicate.

In time, Drake's medical condition is revealed, along with it family dynamics and well guarded secrets. In time, more walls are knocked down as Drake's family confronts the truth about his vocal condition. Learning sign language and being discharged from the hospital accelerates his progress and readers can take delight in the gains he and his family have made.

For these three clients, the sound of silence was broken.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding
This is one of the many books by Torey Hayden that I have read. This time I was introduced to two children who Hayden treats on a children's psychiatric ward. Read more
Published 3 months ago by C. Valcin

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recomended
I`ve read many of Torey Haydens books. I wish there were more people in the world like her.
In this book, she describes working with three very different people. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Someone

4.0 out of 5 stars Poignant and touching true story
Don't be put off by the cheesy subtitles which always seem to accompany Hayden's books - she writes modestly and from the heart, sharing both the faults and the triumphs in her... Read more
Published 23 months ago by barenakedlady

5.0 out of 5 stars interesting
this story is so captivating. shows you how one persons presistence can pay off, torey is such a remarkable person and her dedication to these "lost souls" so to speak is to be... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Lindymck

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice one Torey
Gripping stuff. I couldn't put it down. Harrowing in parts, but fascinating all the same.
Published 24 months ago by D. G. Macdonald

5.0 out of 5 stars An Amazing Read
This is the first Torey book I have read. It is well written and gives a very good insight to how she has worked with these three individuals to make their lives better and more... Read more
Published on 18 April 2007 by Kate

4.0 out of 5 stars Not sure
I have just finished reading another book within the same genre. A HOUSE FULL OF WHISPERS, and wondered about the people Tory writes about and if they minded her using them to... Read more
Published on 15 Nov 2006 by Hayley

5.0 out of 5 stars AN EDUCATION FOR ME!
"I myself think of Gerda often, particularly when I am at home in Montana. Particularly when the chokecherries are in bloom. Read more
Published on 21 Aug 2006 by Heather Marshall Negahdar

1.0 out of 5 stars Torey, saint or sinner?
I did not enjoy this book, I have worked in very similar situations to Torey Hayden both in USA and UK and am concerned on a number of levels.
1. Read more
Published on 14 May 2006 by Laerer

5.0 out of 5 stars Twilight Children
I have just finished reading this book and was as equalled engrossed in it as I was with One Child and Tiger's Child. Read more
Published on 5 Jan 2006 by ellisbarilli

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