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You feel undervalued when you write the kind of fiction I write.

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People say 'chick lit,' and what they mean is 'crap.' And so even though you might sell 100,000 copies of a book, you're never going to win a prize. These are books that people don't just read, they devour them - they stay up into the early hours because they want to devour them.

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I was made redundant from a job as a PA in a shirt-making company in 1996. I was devastated. I had been there for three years, and it was a job I really liked.

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Nick Hornby's a genius.

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I tried to write about my first marriage in a fictional version but got two pages into it and realised it was too personal. Then I came up with an old-fashioned love triangle, which became the plot for 'Ralph's Party.'

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My mother was born on February 8, 1944, in Lucknow, India. Her father, Albert, was half-Indian and half-Portuguese.

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My mother died in 2005. She was 61 years old.

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I am the oldest of three girls and the only one not named after one of my father's ex-girlfriends.

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'Ralph's Party' was supposed to be a psychological thriller, but I fell in love with all my characters and wanted only the best for them.

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I am a terrible, terrible typist. I could not have been a writer in the age of typewriters.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: July 19th, 1968

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