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“Black fatherhood is definitely something we don’t see enough”
Candice Brathwaite wants to see black fatherhood positively uplifted in film, TV and books
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    “Black fatherhood is definitely something we don’t see enough”
  2. "I'd only read a handful of recipe books when I was asked to write one"
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    "I'd only read a handful of recipe books when I was asked to write one"
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  3. "I didn't realise how quietly rebellious I was being"
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    "I didn't realise how quietly rebellious I was being"
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    A Big Book Chat with Val McDermid
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  8. "The library was my salvation"
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    "The library was my salvation"
  9. "I spent a lot of my youth writing my mother's stories down"
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    "I spent a lot of my youth writing my mother's stories down"
  10. "It doesn't bother me if people work out on page one who the killer is"
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    "It doesn't bother me if people work out on page one who the killer is"
  11. “It wasn't just one night that I cried my eyes out”
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  13. "How you perceive things and how you are perceived can be at such odds"
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  14. "It made it acceptable to talk about kinky sex"
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