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I love research, and in fact it's liberating because you have to create your own world. No one can say I've just got back from the 1860s, and you got it wrong. Anyway, it's fiction.

Stef Penney

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Stef Penney
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
Writer
Edinburgh
Scotland
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