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The childhood book that sparked my love of reading was a very heavy tome on Robin Hood. I was fascinated by the outlaw and his band of merry men. A bit later I fell in love with Louise Fitzhugh’s Harr

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My only commandment is ‘Thou shalt not bore’

by Harriet Lane (£20, HB, Orion) What lies beneath the image we construct of ourselves? Ruth, newly divorced and drifting as her daughter leaves home, feels invisible – until Sookie, her dazzling form