"The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!"

Family, Books, Childhood

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"The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!"

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"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."

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"I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell."

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"I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me."

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"My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor."

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"I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette."

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