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Sat 08 Aug 2010The little voices in our heads that last a lifetime
Authors and readers alike shy away from the child narrator but for her latest novel, Emma Donoghuehad to discover the voice of a five-year-old
WHO ARE the children in your head? The ones you can hear loud and clear whenever you think about them, I mean. Perhaps they’re your own children, or nephews, grandchildren or small friends. But I’d bet some of the most memorable of them don’t actually exist; never have existed in the flesh-and-blood sense. Their little limbs are made of words.
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