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Ruth Valentine

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The United Kingdom
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Virginia Woolf, Czeslaw Milosz, Ken Smith

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I was born in Sussex at the end of WW2, the child of a British woman and a Canadian Airforce officer, who was soon posted back home. I was adopted aged 2 weeks by two elderly women. My interest in adoption and in absent parents comes from my childhood; it's there in my new novel, The Jeweller's Skin, and in the essay about the origins of the novel in London, City of Disappearances.
I came to London to university at 18, and have stayed here since, bar a year's voluntary service in Senegal and an MA at Essex. I've worked in Citizens Advice and with refugees and asylum seekers, and as a consultant to various charities. Currently I earn my living conducting secular funerals.
I always wanted to write, but didn't allow myself to take it seriously t
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The Jeweller's Skin

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Downpour

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Asylum, hospital, haven: A ...

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On the Saltmarsh

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The Tide Table

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If You Want Thunder

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Self Help in the News

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The identification of species

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