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I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they invariably reply, 'Children's books?' Maybe it's something about my face.

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Sophie Kinsella
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 12
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Madeleine Wickham
Madeleine Sophie Wickham
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