"Distance in time has made my voice less contrived and subjective. I don’t feel I’m writing some kind of diary (which I kind of felt I was doing when I was 16). I am far more conscious of my voice and more disciplined in separating myself from my characters…"
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On how it has changed for her writing in a teenager’s voice in “Randa Abdel-Fattah: Identity and emotion” in The Writer (2018 Jan 18)
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