Abstract
This article analyses the narrative techniques employed by children's literature to construct the sense of ‘what really happened’, even in the face of conflicting narratives, from a cognitive narratological perspective. Focusing on metarepresentation and attachment theory, the paper proposes the concept of ‘truth narrative’ to refer to narratives which make a claim about story-world reality. The function and construction of truth narratives is explored through a close reading of Siobhan Dowd's Bog Child.
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