Staff at Department of the Taoiseach prepared four-page primer, including notes on Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot at request of Simon Harris
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The document then went on to give a brief summary of the plot before advising about changes to the text since he read it. It said the format of the interview would be “conversational and relaxed” aiming to get the life story of the guest “through the lens of their favourite books.” The next book chosen was Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and its representation of an autistic child and how this opened up Mr Harris’ “early advocacy”.
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