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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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First Book Award podcast: Catherine O'Flynn

Catherine O'Flynn talks to the Guardian's literary editor, Claire Armitstead, about finding a publisher, writing in a child's voice and drawing on her own experience of working in a shopping mall in her debut novel, What Was Lost.

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