“It’s pathetic. It’s just so pathetic.”
OB BTS: Graeme really wanted the clue from the book to be something whimsical and surprising, if this book was written to Rachel by her father, it would be to the Rachel he remembers when he left—a seven-year-old girl. So a nursery rhyme seemed natural. The key code system needed to make text work in a cool and visually interesting way, so we use a system where the scratched-out letters themselves formed a coded language, so that the symbols would emerge from the page as Rachel deciphered them. (x)
