The Tongue She Speaks
Emma Grae
The Tongue She Speaks
Emma Grae
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‘Wi her latest nuvel, grae is gaun fae strenth tae strenth!’ – DR MICHAEL DEMPSTER, Director of The Scots Language Centre
‘Deep-rooted prejudice against the Scots language is to be explored in a new book that features a bullied teenage schoolgirl as its main protagonist.’ – BRIAN FERGUSSON, The Scotsman
‘The book gives us all the inspiration to delve intae oor inn'r Scots and try and scrive in Scots anaw! It's also helped light the fire in me of encouraging my classes to use Scots regularly - after all, we aw speak it!’ – SCOTT SHEILDS, The Wee Scottish Book Club
‘Emma Grae’s new novel paints a portrait of a young life that is both thrilling and moving.’ – JOYCE MCMILLAN, The Scotsman
‘Emma Grae shows an acute understanding of the faultlines in a dysfunctional family... a painfully raw debut’ – THE HERALD on Be Guid Tae Yer Mammy
‘A smashing story with a strong Scots voice’ – DR MICHAEL DEMPSTER, Director of The Scots Language Centre on Be Guid Tae Yer Mammy
‘This is a brave novel... with a strong cultural identity.’ – BILLY KAY, author of Scots: The Mither Tongue on Be Guid Tae Yer Mammy
‘It opened my eyes to how beautiful Scots is and has made me want to read more literature by authors writing in Scots. But mostly this author! – LILY BAILEY, author of Because We Are Bad on Be Guid Tae Yer Mammy
‘Wi her latest nuvel, grae is gaun fae strenth tae strenth!’ – DR MICHAEL DEMPSTER, Director of The Scots Language Centre
‘Deep-rooted prejudice against the Scots language is to be explored in a new book that features a bullied teenage schoolgirl as its main protagonist.’ – BRIAN FERGUSSON, The Scotsman
‘The book gives us all the inspiration to delve intae oor inn'r Scots and try and scrive in Scots anaw! It's also helped light the fire in me of encouraging my classes to use Scots regularly - after all, we aw speak it!’ – SCOTT SHEILDS, The Wee Scottish Book Club
‘Emma Grae’s new novel paints a portrait of a young life that is both thrilling and moving.’ – JOYCE MCMILLAN, The Scotsman
‘Emma Grae shows an acute understanding of the faultlines in a dysfunctional family... a painfully raw debut’ – THE HERALD on Be Guid Tae Yer Mammy
‘A smashing story with a strong Scots voice’ – DR MICHAEL DEMPSTER, Director of The Scots Language Centre on Be Guid Tae Yer Mammy
‘This is a brave novel... with a strong cultural identity.’ – BILLY KAY, author of Scots: The Mither Tongue on Be Guid Tae Yer Mammy
‘It opened my eyes to how beautiful Scots is and has made me want to read more literature by authors writing in Scots. But mostly this author! – LILY BAILEY, author of Because We Are Bad on Be Guid Tae Yer Mammy
Emma Grae is a Scottish author and journalist from Glasgow. She is a passionate advocate of the Scots language and breaking the stigma around mental illness. She has published fiction and poetry in the UK and Ireland since 2014 in journals including The Honest Ulsterman, From Glasgow to Saturn and The Open Mouse. Her debut novel, Be Guid tae yer Mammy, was published by Unbound in August 2021.
As a journalist, she writes under her birth surname, Guinness, and has bylines in a number of publications including Cosmopolitan, the Huffington Post and the Metro.
Find her on Twitter @emmagraeauthor.