Writing is a challenge. A Down’s syndrome child is about acceptance By Maura Adshead

WHEN you write in a university, you plan your work in months.

A colleague and I are planning a book. We think we know what we want to say, we think we know what the main arguments will be, and we think that if we crack on with it over the summer, there’s a chance it could be written by Christmas.

We know, though, even as we say it, that this is optimistic and probably delusional. Experience tells us that when we put our ideas on paper, and as we work through them and the arguments, the book will probably take a year.