A review by andintothetrees
Grace Williams Says It Loud by Emma Henderson

4.0

Grace Williams is a novel about the eponymous character who we follow from her girlhood to middle age, whilst she lives in a hospital (and subsequently the community) in the UK in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, with a focus on her teenage years. Grace is an unusual heroine, as she has physical and intellectual disabilities (although I was never entirely convinced of the latter – more on this later) and is part of a section of the population who was shut away from the public (quite literally, as in the hospital portrayed here) during the period the book is set. The novel loosely centres around Grace’s relationship with a boy called Daniel, but I felt it was more of a study of attitudes towards disability, and the taking of an opportunity to tell the story of a person from a community whose stories are not often told.

... [Read the rest of my review here: https://whathannahread.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/grace-williams-says-it-loud-by-emma-henderson/]