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She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.

David Nicholls

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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
Sides
Accepts
Two
Refusal
Thought
Increasingly
Used
Complicated
Argument
Pride
Accepting
Issues
Ambiguous

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