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CAROLYN KIRBY

‘I can put a date to the moment when I first decided to write fiction. It was 8 May 2008 and I had just read the ’s obituary for a wartime pilot, Diana Barnato Walker. I was an avid reader of historical novels and had often fantasised that I might write one. When I read about Diana’s life, one that was filled with glamour and adventure as well as tragedy, I felt that if I was going to

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