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Geraldine McCaughrean

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I never dreamt I could be an author when I grew up. It just didn’t occur to me, because I thought you had to be a) academic, so go to university, things like that, and I didn’t think I was clever, or b) dead because I just assumed all the authors in the library were dead.

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I read hugely as a child, but I slowed up when the print got smaller. I am a very slow reader. I don’t know why. Maybe it is like some people chewing their food for ages and some wolfing it down.

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It isn’t that I don’t tackle issues; it’s just that they’re secondary to giving somebody an escape route from the banal routine of everyday life.

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April 29, 2024

It isn’t that I don’t tackle issues; it’s just that they’re secondary to giving somebody an escape route from the banal routine of everyday life.

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April 29, 2024

I read hugely as a child, but I slowed up when the print got smaller. I am a very slow reader. I don’t know why. Maybe it is like some people chewing their food for ages and some wolfing it down.

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