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  <name><![CDATA[Laura Hird]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Laura Hird was born in Edinburgh in 1966. She is the only child of June, medical secretary/undiscovered literary/acting genius and Ronnie, ex Allied Brewers storeman/undiscovered artistic genius.

Laura spent her childhood climbing trees, playing with Action Men, being taken to opera/ballet/musicals, learning piano, entering competitions and being subsequently bullied (an ordeal which she now describes as &quot;character-building&quot;) After leaving Tynecastle School, aged 16, she embarked on various careers - sales assistant at Rae Macintosh classical record shop, packer of coleslaw, packer of catalogue clothing, seller of velvet shirts at Ingliston Market, dozens of office jobs for civil engineers/chartered surveyors/insurance companies/Waterstones/Scottish Prison Officer &quot;Association/Legal Aid Board&quot; and stints as a Council Tax canvasser, bookies clerkess and boardmarker.

Between 1988-91 she studied at Middlesex Polytechnic and worked, lived and staggered around London, graduating with a BA(Hons) in Studies in Contemporary Writing. After this, she returned to Edinburgh, working again in offices to gain back her reputation as the oldest office junior in Britain, until receiving a Scottish Arts Council Bursary in 1997 to allow her to write full-time.]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>Edinburgh</hometown>  <born_at>01/01/1966</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Born Free]]></title>
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  <published>2001</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Born Free.]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Laura Hird]]></name>
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  <published>2001</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Dear Laura: Letters from a Mother to Her Daughter]]></title>
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  <published>2007</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Les lois de l'hérédité]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Laura Hird]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Les lois de l'hérédité]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Laura Hird]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[L'Ongle]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Laura Hird]]></name>
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  <published>2001</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Nägel. Stories.]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Laura Hird]]></name>
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  <published>2003</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Como En Familia]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Laura Hird]]></name>
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  <published>2003</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Rovers Return]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John King]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Laura Hird]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Anthony Bourdain]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Emer Martin]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Gordon Legge]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[James Meek]]></name>
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  <published>1998</published>  
  
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