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‘I couldn’t keep my eyes off him’
Author Jane Johnson, 62, met her husband Abdellatif, 60, in Morocco. His homeland has inspired her writing.
Stepping out of our hotel, we were met with pouring rain. ‘Not the best conditions to climb a mountain,’ I laughed to my friend Bruce. It was 2005, and I was in Morocco, researching my latest novel about pirates who once terrorised the British coast. Bruce had agreed to join me - on the condition that we could do some climbing, too.
After researching in Northern Morocco for a few days, we travelled down to