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should have been the fifth novel by the award-winning children’s and young adults’ author Siobhan Dowd.

Born to Irish parents in south London, Dowd studied at Oxford before a career with the writers’ charity PEN. She spent years working for the US branch of the organisati­on in New York, where she founded the Salman Rushdie Defence Committee, which supported the author while he was in hiding during the ’90s.

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