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It's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama.

David Nicholls

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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
Teenage
Appetite
Drama
High
Hard
Overestimate

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