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A Big Book Chat with Val McDermid
Alex Clark talks to the queen of crime Val McDermid.
- A Big Book Chat with Val McDermid
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- "I didn't realise how quietly rebellious I was being"
- "This book presented another kind of representation"
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- How To Be A Man
- “Both me and him were in tears”
- "I never knew more than the four streets that I lived on"
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