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Nina Bawden is one of the few novelists who are equally successful in writing both for adults and for children. She remembers her own childhood very clearly and many of her children's books draw on the places she knew and the things that happened to her when she was young. Her grandmother's house in Norfolk was the place where she first heard the story of 'The Peppermint pig' and she was evacuated to a mining valley in Wales just like the heroine of 'Carrie's War' and 'Keeping Henry'. Like Jane in 'The Outside Child', she also discovered relatives whose existence had been kept secret by the grown-ups in the family. From school, she went to Somerville College, Oxford, where she studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics in the same year as Margaret Thatcher. She had always liked writing and finished her first novel (for adults) the year after she had taken...

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