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If you are looking for the work of the actual author, is a prolific writer with a career spanning over four decades. You can find more about her and her work through these official channels:

In the spirit of the real-life , a contemporary English novelist known for her "wild and joyful inventiveness", It draws inspiration from her recent explorations into memory and the blurred lines between autobiography and fiction. The Shadow in the Dressing Table miranda miller

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"Who are they?" I asked one rainy afternoon, my finger tracing the silver edge of the frames.

But children have a way of smelling a lie before they can even define it. I knew every cousin and second-cousin we had in Kent and Sussex. These girls, with their sun-bleached hair and stiff Victorian dresses, belonged to a world she never spoke of—a world she had boarded a ship to leave behind, carrying only a suitcase and a different name.