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[?].
- One Child (1980)
- Somebody Else’s Kids (1981)
- Murphy’s Boy (1983)
- The Sunflower Forest (fiction, 1984)
- Just Another Kid (1988)
- Ghost Girl (1991)
- The Tiger’s Child (1995)
- The Mechanical Cat (fiction, 1999)
- (not published in English but in Swedish, Italian, Finnish and Japanese)
- Beautiful Child (2002)
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