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Sep 2015
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Annabel Pitcher: 'we don't have to aspir...

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The author of My Sister Lives on The Mantelpiece talks to site member The Dormouse about her new book, Silence is Goldfish, which she wrote for all the limelight-avoiding introverts out there 
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