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...Her books, peopled with peculiar, determined characters who might have been invented by Muriel Spark or Ann Quin, often read as works of metafiction lurking beneath a veneer of fairground-style distortion...
...So many, but primarily Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Muriel Spark, Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anne Tyler and Carol Shields. Where do you write best? In bed, in the morning....
...In 1953 the couple had twins, Carol and Mark....
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