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Being a Twin
As a child, it always pleased me that I managed to push my way into the world thirty minutes before my brother. I was the oldest! But that never stopped me – or him – from enjoying the fact of being a twin. It felt ‘special’. Different. Although parental attention had to be shared – not to mention birthday parties and bedrooms – we never minded. Nor were we envious of our two elder sisters, with…
December 2025: Writerly Prescience...
Sometimes, you write a thing in a story and then it happens for real. During the course of a career now spanning several decades and 20 books, there have been enough instances of it for me not to be that surprised. Usually it’s been trivial: like making a ginger cat arrive in a character’s life not long before one barged into mine. Occasionally it’s been more tragic: like me deciding to put a…
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