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The Verb at Hay Festival: How to write a Novel

The Verb

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The Ghost Ship

The book is part of the Huguenot diaspora. It is about being a woman in a very dangerous man's world. Kate has never read aloud from this book before. So when she makes a real hash of it, can I just tell you the book's great? Well, let's hear the extra. Could you set it up for us? What about to hear? Yes, I love a prologue and an epilogue. And we are right at the very beginning of the book where we are meeting a character who will become the lead character,. But we don't know who she is, or really very much about her at this moment. The book isn't

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