Undeterred, a few sessions went virtual, including reflections by Irish-Canadian novelist Emma Donoghue on writing characters much older or younger than herself. She had been thinking about the case of Elisabeth Fritzl, held captive for 24 years by her rapist father Josef, who impregnated her many times, holding some of the children captive also. A child might find isolation with his mother a heaven, for example, in a way that she finds it a hell. One of the things I love about children’s languages is that they are consistently inconsistent.”Another challenge was the child’s outlook. She mentioned she knows internet research quite well but did not know you could search an image on Google.

Source: National Post June 06, 2020 13:52 UTC