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I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.

Sophie Kinsella

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Sophie Kinsella
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 12
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Journalist
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London
England
Madeleine Wickham
Madeleine Sophie Wickham
Didn
Music
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Life
Oxford
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