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You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?'

Michael Gove

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Michael Gove
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 26
British Politician
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Michael Andrew Gove
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