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The Importance of Being Strong
Her East End Jewish lineage was revealed to her while participating in BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are in 2021. She learned that her great-grandfather fought the police and fascist black shirts in the 1936 Battle of Cable Street. Not long after, she began writing. It was a way out of a dark space she'd been experiencing for six months. Her book opens, What I have learned over the past couple of years is that I'm very good at disguising when I feel low. Scott relates her irrational hatred of BMWs because her father revered them.
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