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To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think that would be unreal. What Im writing is real.

Sophie Kinsella

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