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Gillian Shields
Gillian Shields was born and brought up in Yorkshire, in the north of England. As she grew up, she had two passions:books and theater. Gillian’s love of books led her to read English at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. After university she studied acting in London. She then taught in a drama school, the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts,...



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Actual Real Reality of Jennifer James, The MSR
by Gillian Shields

This is the diary of Jennifer James. It contains: One Heroine: Jennifer James, burdened by brains, struggling to release her Inner Babe One High School: London Road Comprehensive, a no-hope English school in a no-hope English town One Prize: A scholarship to the elite St. Willibald's College [Jennifer's idea of Paradise] offered to the winner of...
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The landscape of Immortal
A ruined Abbey, one of the inspirations for Wyldcliffe. Yorkshire is rich in ancient chapels and churches.
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A Traveler in Time
by Alison Uttley
Villette
by Charlotte Bronte
I Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith
The World According to Bertie
by Alexander McCall Smith
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte







My favorite quote is…
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." —The Go-Between, L. P. Hartley
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I am not like Evie. I don’t belong in some great romance. I’m...

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There are the small betrayals: the unkind word, the petty lies. And there...

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