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My Place In History

12 May 2016 By Sally Zigmond

Fiction is often described as ‘character in action.’ And characters have to be active somewhere you can see, smell, hear and touch, unless you’re Samuel Beckett who can bury Winnie up to her waist and then neck in sand and yet create an active character.  For the rest of us, a strong sense of place […]

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