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 USA to Wales 1980. She married a Scottish man 1982 and had
a daughter Sheena 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 ElseÕs Kids (1981)
   * MurphyÕs Boy (1983)
   * The Sunflower Forest (fiction, 1984)
   * Just Another Kid (1988)
   * Ghost Girl (1991)
   * The TigerÕs Child (1995)
   * The Mechanical Cat (fiction, 1999)
        o (not published in English but in Swedish, Italian, Finnish and Japanese)
   * Beautiful Child (2002)