Authors: Beryl Kingston
Octavia (37 page)
B
ERYL
K
INGSTON
has been a writer since she was seven, when she started producing poetry. According to her, it wasn’t very good but she had a few more years to hone her skills before her first book was published in 1980. Kingston was a schoolteacher until 1985, becoming a full-time writer when her debut novel became a bestseller. She lives in West Sussex, and has three children and five grandchildren.
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First published in Great Britain by Allison & Busby in 2007.
This ebook edition first published in 2012.
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ERYL
K
INGSTON
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ISBN 978–0–7490–1169–7