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Laura Thompson

LAURA THOMPSON is a writer and journalist. She won the Somerset Maugham Award for her first book, The Dogs, and is the author of the critically acclaimed biography of Nancy Mitford, Life in a Cold ClimateThe Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters; and Agatha Christie: An English Mystery.

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