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I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me.

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However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.

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However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.

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Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

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Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.

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As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates.

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A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Poet

Born: December 12th, 1952

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