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All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.

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I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes.

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Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.

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A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.

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Nina Bawden

Nina Bawden

Born: January 19, 1925
Died: August 22, 2012 (aged 87)
Bio: Nina Bawden JP was an English novelist and children's writer. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1987 and the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010.
Known for:
  1. Carrie's War (1973)
  2. The peppermint pig (1975)
  3. Circles of Deceit (1987)
  4. The Witch's Daughter (1966)
  5. The Birds on the Trees (1970)

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