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As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates.

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When my second child was born, I gave up acting - two young children out on the road was too difficult to manage. I'd always written, but began to do so with real commitment now that it was my only creative outlet. I used all my acting techniques to do it. I still do.

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I never plan a structure. I like surprises. I'm quite disciplined and sit at my desk every day and just write.

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If I learnt anything at all about terminal illness in my research, it's that the experience is different for everyone. I do believe that life becomes concentrated when it's boundaried and that death is the biggest boundary of all.

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I get a lot of letters, mostly from family members who have been affected by cancer rather than young people themselves. I reply to them all.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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