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Maggie O'Farrell

What I Wish I'd Known

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The Next Near-Death Experience

When you were 21, a plane plunged down towards Earth on the way to Hong Kong. People who weren't wearing lap belts flew up in their seats and hit ceiling. Even cabin staff were panicking - that was the most terrifying thing. You then used carried on because you had a machete-wielding person in the movie. And then you had the riptide in India... do you think I'm very unlucky or lucky? "I consider myself hugely lucky," she says.

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