so i'm driving to work, ( i often 'play' in my car), and one character is having a really emotional heart-to-heart with another character.  The next thing i realise, i'm bawling my eyes out (becuase the character's bawling her eyes out and it's such a special moment... ), and the beggar next to my car is giving me funny looks... So i gotta snap out of it... Once i'm back in the real world, the tears are suddenly completely gone. 

I think i must look really strange…

Here's the book:  "overheard in a dream" by Torey Hayden.

Torey Hayden writes a lot of non-fiction.  SHe's a child psychologist who has written books about all the messed up kiddies she worked with, and she's one of my faviourite authors. 

But a couple of months ago i stumbled across a NOVEL that she wrote.  It's about a psychiatrist trying to 'unlock' a supposedly autistic boy, and he works a lot with the little boy's mother. 

What's interesting here…