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    Growing Pains: A Review Of Daniel Shand’s Crocodile…
    • Oct 15, 2018
    • 3 min

    Growing Pains: A Review Of Daniel Shand’s Crocodile…

    There are few more difficult aspects for an adult writer to get right than the voice of a child. Often they are given speech patterns which are older in tone and content than the intended age. In recent years, however, Scottish writing has had quite a few examples where a young central character’s voice, accents and actions have been utterly believable. They include Ross Sayer’s Mary’s The Name, Helen MacKinven’s Talk Of The Toun and P.K. Lynch’s Armadillos, and to those you

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