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Edi talks to the fascinating writer Maggie O鈥橣arrell about what lies behind her highly successful novels, including Hamnett which won the Women鈥檚 Prize for Fiction. She also talks about her own true personal brushes with danger and death since childhood, and how her memoir 鈥業 am I am I am鈥� is linked to her daughter鈥檚 life threatening allergies. She reveals how her latest novel, The Marriage Portrait, set in Renaissance Italy, arrived on her lap.
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