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Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

Sara Sheridan

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Sara Sheridan
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 7
Novelist
Writer
Edinburgh
Scotland
Readers
Reader
Writer
Imagination
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