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Jill Dawson

Jill Dawson

Jill Dawson explains how books and writing literally saved her life. Jill Dawson discusses the writers – mostly American, many black – that nourished her through a series of difficult youthful circumstances, offering her ‘a shape to discover myself in’.


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