Elämä on jakanut Sheilalle kurjat kortit. Äidin hylkäämästä ja alkoholisti-isän pahoinpitelemästä tytöstä tulee lapsi, jota aikuisetkin pelkäävät.Odottaessaan paikkaa suljettuun laitokseen Sheila joutuu vaikeasti häiriintyneiden lasten luokalle, jota Torey Hayden opettaa. Siitä alka[...]
Seitsemäntoistavuotias Lesley elää amerikkalaisessa pikkukaupungissa äitinsä, isänsä ja pikkusiskonsa kanssa ja haaveilee muiden ikäistensä tapaan poikaystävästä ja huolettomista opiskeluvuosista.Kun Lesley viimein pääsee treffeille, hän ei uskalla tuoda poikaystävää kotiin. Hän p[...]
Kaivostoiminnan kuihduttua montanalaiseen Abundancen pikkukaupunkiin tuovat elämää enää elokuvatähdet, jotka pakenevat vuoristolukaaleihinsa julkisuutta. Yksi heistä on Spencer Scott, joka joutuu yllättäen huolehtimaan yhdeksänvuotiaasta pojastaan.Kaupungin toisella laidalla vähävarainen[...]
Kaivostoiminnan kuihduttua montanalaiseen Abundancen pikkukaupunkiin tuovat elämää enää elokuvatähdet, jotka pakenevat vuoristolukaaleihinsa julkisuutta. Yksi heistä on Spencer Scott, joka joutuu yllättäen huolehtimaan yhdeksänvuotiaasta pojastaan.Kaupungin toisella laidalla vähävarainen[...]
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.[...]
This beautiful and deeply moving tale recounts educational psychologist Torey Hayden's battle to unlock the emotions of a troubled and sexually abused child who, with the help of Hayden, was finally able to overcome her dark past and realise her full potential. Six-year-old Sheila was abandoned by [...]
Torey Hayden returns with this deeply-moving sequel to her first book, One Child (the Sunday Times bestseller). After seven years, Torey is reunited with Sheila, the disturbed 6-year-old she tried to rescue. Sheila was a deeply disturbed six-year-old when she came into Torey Hayden's life -- a stor[...]
A stunning and poignant account of an extraordinary teacher's determination from the author of the #1 Sunday Times bestsellers The Tiger's Child and One Child. Jadie never spoke, never laughed, never cried. She spent every waking hour locked in her own private world of shadows. But nothing in Torey[...]
A dramatic and remarkable narrative of an extraordinary teacher's determination, from the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers 'The Tiger's Child' and 'One Child'. Torey Hayden faced six emotionally troubled kids no other teacher could handle -- three recent arrivals from battle-torn Northern Ire[...]
From the author of Sunday Times bestsellers One Child and Ghost Girl comes a heartbreaking story of one teacher's determination to turn a chaotic group of damaged children into a family. They were all just "somebody else's kids" -- four problem children placed in Torey Hayden's class because nobody[...]
From the author of Sunday Times bestsellers One Child and Ghost Girl comes a heartbreaking story of a boy trapped in silence and the teacher who rescued him. When special education teacher Torey Hayden first met fifteen-year-old Kevin, he was barricaded under a table. Desperately afraid of the worl[...]
Bestselling author Torey Hayden's novel is a fascinating study of a fractured family, a troubled child, and a psychiatrist's attempts to rescue them. Conor, aged nine, arrives in the play therapy room of child psychiatrist James Innes with the diagnosis "autistic". His mother Laura, an aloof, enigm[...]
Bestselling author Torey Hayden's new novel poignantly tells of a daughter's attempt to grow up in the shadow of her mother's haunted past. Warm, melancholy and evocatively rendered this book captures the essence of a family touched by sadness. A haunting tale of a family who can't escape the conse[...]
From bestselling author Torey Hayden comes a moving new novel of loss and redemption. Abundance, Montana, once a lively mining town in the days of the wild west, is now not much more than a ghost town. Local girl, Dixie, a struggling single mother who has just lost her baby, tries to make ends meet[...]
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