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Two Words
The National talking with Emma Henderson, author of Grace Williams Says It Loud:
“It was an experiment at first,” says the 52-year-old Henderson of a conceit – when Grace can speak it is in sentences of two words only – that is far less frustrating than it sounds. “I’m probably admitting too much here but the whole writing of it was a case of fumbling in the dark, so I was imposing these rules to see if they made the book better. I did some research into child psychology and development and found that babies when they learn to speak start by naming just one object at a time. “Milk”, “bread”, “mummy”, and so on. The moment they put two words together – “milk, now” – they are effectively forming sentences and making themselves understood. I wanted to see how far I could take that.”
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