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FAMILY AFFAIR

READERS often ask her the same question: “Why are the characters in your books so unusual?”

Sophie Hannah says she has her own quirky relatives to thank for it.

“So many mad things happened in my extended family, and it gave me the firm conviction that most people are very weird,” the British thriller writer says as she chats to us

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