num_pages: 304
description: 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 her mother on a highway when she was four. A survivor of horrific abuse she never spoke never cried and was placed in a class for severely retarded children after committing an atrocious act of violence against another child. Everyone thought Sheila was beyond salvationexcept her teacher Torey Hayden. With patience skill and abiding love she fought long and hard to release a haunted little girl from her secret nightmareand nurture the spark of genius she recognised trapped within Sheila's silence. This is the remarkable story of their journey togetheran odyssey of hope courage and inspiring devotion that opened the heart and mind of one lost child to a new world of discovery and joy.
language: English
title: One Child
publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks