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We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare. Scrabble? He sounds surprised. Scrabble's great. Not when you're playing with a family of geniuses, it's not. They all put words like 'iridiums'. And I put 'pig'.

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Sophie Kinsella
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: December 12
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Journalist
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London
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Madeleine Wickham
Madeleine Sophie Wickham
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