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I had no plans to be a writer. My teenaged bid for stardom was to be a pop star... which, ahem, didn't exactly work out.

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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
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Visiting any shop for the first time is exciting. There's always that buzz as you push open the door that hope that belief - that this is going to be the shop of all shops, which will bring you everything you ever wanted, at magically low prices.
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Don’t think about it. Don’t think about what could have been. It’s too unbearable.
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Great. Just great. One glimpse of his body and I have a full-blown crush. I honestly thought I was a bit deeper than that.
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