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" All my main characters have got bits of me, bits of my family, bits of my friends. "

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" Sometimes you need to be shaken out of a situation. "

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" I was brought up in the same house I was born in, and I lived there until I left home as an adult. I also went to a Catholic school, which was full of Irish girls whose parents never split up, so everyone I knew had these big family set-ups. "

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