Marika Cobbold

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Marika Cobbold


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I was born in Gothenburg Sweden into a family of readers and writers. My father is a newspaper editor and columnist, as is my brother. My mother, who stayed at home looking after the family, furnished the walls of every room with shelves full of books. We were a family that read and discussed and whereas there were restrictions about what we were allowed to watch on TV, and comic books were discouraged, books were a different matter; basically, the rule was that my brother and I could read whatever we could reach. (It was a happy day when, standing on a chair, I got hold of Fanny Hill.)

Ours was a liberal and tolerant household but some sins, I had imprinted on me, were beyond the pale, book burning and censorship of the written word were t
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Drowning Rose

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Guppies for Tea

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Frozen Music

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Shooting Butterflies

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The Purveyor of Enchantment

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Aphrodite's Workshop for Re...

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A rival creation

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“When someone you love, dies, it’s as if they leave you with half shares of your life together. The person you were in their eyes dies with them.”
Marika Cobbold, Guppies for Tea

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