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Dee lives in the South of England in a home otherwise filled with males – husband, boys and pets – she writes to escape the testosterone.

She writes using the name D.J. Kirkby and Dee Kirkby. Dee is the author of Without Alice, My Dream of You, My Mini Midwife, the Special Deliveries series, Realand, Raffie Island and Queendom (The Portal Series for 7 - 11 year olds), and The Rules.

Dee can be found chatting to people on Twitter and Facebook.

Her website for childrens' books is here: http://www.deekirkby.co.uk

Her website for adult books is here: http://djkirkby.co.uk/ ...more

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Dear Doctorate – Year 3, sometime in the first semester…

Dear Doctorate Diary It’s the 31st December 2020, it’s taken me several months to write this one post, and what strange year this has been, though (for me anyway) this year has actually had a balance of negatives and positives. I’ve been working from home and even longer hours than ...

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	Special Deliveries: Life Changing Moments 4.23 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Without Alice 3.45 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	100RPM - One Hundred Stories Inspired By Music by Caroline Smailes (Editor), Nik Kershaw (Introduction), Rowan Coleman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.98 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Dream of You 3.81 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Zaftig to Aspie 4.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Mini Midwife by D.J. Kirkby (Goodreads Author), Denyse Kirkby 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rules 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Educating Emma by Miranda Forbes (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kristina Wright (Goodreads Author), Sommer Marsden (Goodreads Author) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Special Deliveries in Unusual Places 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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