Silent Boy

<p>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.</p> <p>When special education teacher Torey Hayden first met fifteen-year-old Kevin he was barricaded under a table. Desperately afraid of the world around him he hadn’t spoken a word in eight years. He was considered hopeless incurable.</p> <p>But Hayden refused to believe it though she realised it might well take a miracle to break through the walls he had built around himself. With unwavering devotion and gentle patient love she set out to free him – and slowly uncovered a shocking violent history and a terrible secret that an unfeeling bureaucracy had simply filed away and forgotten.</p> <p>Torey refused to give up on this tragic “lost case.” For a trapped and frightened boy desperately needed her help – and she knew in her heart she could not rest easy until she had rescued him from the darkness.</p>