![]() ![]() When we look through their eyes, the way we see the world softens and shifts.īecause of this, child narrators in adult fiction are often used to explore family situations, or broader societal issues, with their naïve interpretations shedding new light on issues ranging from emotions like grief and love, through culture and politics to murder and rape. What I love about child narrators is the way they question the things that we take for granted, and take for granted the things we question. She picks out her favourite books for grown-ups with a child’s voice at their heart. Claire King’s haunting debut The Night Rainbow is a novel about innocence and experience, grief and compassion and the dangers of an overactive imagination, told from the viewpoint of five-year-old Pea, whose mother is wracked by grief over the recent death of her husband, Pea’s father. ![]()
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