The crime writer Val McDermid has revealed she was assigned a “sensitivity reader” to remove language that could cause offence from her earlier works.
The Scottish author has sold more than 19m novels worldwide and is known for the authenticity of the dialogue in her work.
The books she wrote in the 1980s and 1990s featured characters in law enforcement who used rac
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