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Nine-year-old Cassandra, kidnapped by her father and found starving, dirty, and picking through garbage cans -- a child prone to long silences and erratic, violent behavior, whose hard-won recollections of the nightmare she endured could not be fully trusted.
Charming, charismatic four-year-old Drake, who would speak only in private to his mother -- his tough, unbending grandfather's demands for an immediate cure threatened to cause the delightful boy and his family irreparable harm.
And though she had never worked with adults, Hayden agreed to help fearful and silent eighty-two-year-old massive stroke victim Gerda -- discovering in the process that a treatment's successes could prove nearly as heartbreaking as its limitations.
Twilight Children: Three Voices No One Heard Until a Therapist Listened Reviews
Twilight Children: Three Voices No One Heard Until a Therapist Listened Reviews
| 21 of 22 people found the following review helpful  Not Hayden's best work, but still enjoyable, By This review is from: Twilight Children: Three Voices No One Heard Until a Therapist Listened (Hardcover) I have read several of Hayden's books and enjoyed them all, so I was glad to see a new one come out. However, this book falls a bit short when compared with the others. This book is the story of 3 patients that Hayden treated around the same time; Cassandra- a girl who had been kidnapped by her father, Drake- a boy who, according to his mother, spoke at home but nowhere else, and Gerda- an elderly woman who had suffered a stroke.Given the title of the book, you can't help but wonder how Gerda fits into the story and you are expecting that some trauma from her childhood will be revealed. Although it is revealed that Gerda suffered an impoverished and "marginalized" childhood, this does not seem to have anything to do with her speech problems which were apparently just the result of the stroke. However, Gerda's situation, her sad tales from childhood, her estrangement from her children, and the fact that someone had all her well-cared for cats put to sleep while she was in... Read more 15 of 16 people found the following review helpful  A Reawakening!, By This review is from: Twilight Children: Three Voices No One Heard Until a Therapist Listened (Hardcover) Torey's newest book is an excellent read! I couldn't put the book down! I loved the way she rotated the story among the three characters and I enjoyed reading about her time as a therapist, as opposed to a classroom teacher.Reading this book reawakened in me a fervent need to reread all of her books and I'm currently on a reading marathon. As an eighth-year special education teacher, I highly recommend all of her works to anyone interested in children with special needs. We certainly need more people to follow the compassionate example she has set and documented in each of her books. 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful Un"put-down"able!, By ScarletM (Philadelphia, PA, USA) - See all my reviews This review is from: Twilight Children: Three Voices No One Heard Until a Therapist Listened (Hardcover) I was thrilled to see a new Hayden book and grabbed it off the library shelf. I read the book in one sitting as I could not tear myself away from the compelling stories. Hayden writes so well, by the end of the book you feel very involved in the lives of the characters. I found this book fascinating, sad but mostly compelling reading. Highly recommended. |
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