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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.

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