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My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them.

Sophie Kinsella

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Sophie Kinsella
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 12
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Madeleine Wickham
Madeleine Sophie Wickham
Embracing
Identified
Imitate
Literary
Spent
Slavishly
Childhood
Heroine
Another
Heroines
Would
Passionately

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