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Although I now spend most of my time writing novels for teenagers and adults, 'readaloudability' is still a criterion I try to adhere to.

~Mal Peet

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Bootworks' Black Box Theatre has a maximum seating capacity of two - as long as one of you is happy to sit on the other's lap.

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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.

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I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.

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I tend to boycott all teenage reading while I'm trying to write my own stuff.

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I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.

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I feel able to steal from Emily Dickinson because she's both wonderful and dead.

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I want to entertain, but I also want to push the barriers beyond what kids are conditioned into accepting.

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I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.

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'Keeper' is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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