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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.

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Sophie Kinsella
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: December 12
Author
Journalist
Novelist
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London
England
Madeleine Wickham
Madeleine Sophie Wickham
Music
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Oxford
Anymore
College
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