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I am the sixth of nine children, born in Liverpool, the daughter of a taxi owner and a nurse. Books were an escape, allowing solitude amidst the constant noise and activity of a house full of children. I spent a great portion of my childhood living one fantasy or another, and was constantly in trouble for daydreaming. My mother was always quoting If at me: ‘If you can dream and not make dreams your master/If you can think, and not make thoughts your aim’.
I attended Notre Dame High School for Girls, in Liverpool. I loved making up stories, and began several novels between the age of ten and seventeen, but I disliked creative writing tasks in school, since I hated being told what to write and my English teacher thought my efforts lacked imagination.
When I was sixteen, the family moved out to Runcorn, but I returned to Liverpool to go to University – against my parents’ wishes – to study Environmental Biology. In my second year, my dad refused to sign the grant forms. My English teacher probably wouldn’t have approved of the method I used to get round the problem, but she certainly couldn’t have accused me of lacking imagination... I supported myself through university first by charring, and later by working as a park ranger on the Wirral, taking guided walks.
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