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A life in writing: Kate Summerscale

Reported by guardian.co.uk on Friday, 4 May 2012 (on May 4, 2012)
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'I'm a journalist playing historian, and then I try to convert what I've found into something like a novel'

Kate Summerscale was working on the obituaries desk at the Daily Telegraph when she came..


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