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Linda Grant
British
Novelist
Born:
Feb 15
,
1951
Any
Family
Me
Nothing
Thought
You
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I was embarrassed by my parents. I thought they had nothing of interest to say or contribute to anything. My real crime was not understanding that they were interesting, and I have been trying to make it up to them for being so indescribably blase, so genuinely uninterested and dismissive.
Linda Grant
Crime
Thought
Parents
Understanding
Nothing
Say
Embarrassed
Had
Make
Genuinely
Real
Were
Been
Up
Contribute
Trying
Being
Anything
Interest
Interesting
Them
Uninterested
When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.
Linda Grant
Immensely
Penguin
Classics
Proud
Modern
Rows
When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records.
Linda Grant
Family
Sunday
Would
Records
Mornings
Around
Child
Listen
Assemble
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