"Show me a novelist - or, indeed, a reader - who wasn't a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive reading and I'll... well, I'll probably bang my shoulder on the door frame as I storm out. Many of the most unforgettable female fictional protagonists are gauche, self-doubting, plain and think too much." - Charlotte Mendelson

Charlotte Mendelson: Show me a novelist - or, indeed, a reader - who wasn't...

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"Show me a novelist - or, indeed, a reader - who wasn't a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive reading and I'll... well, I'll probably bang my shoulder on the door frame as I storm out. Many of the most unforgettable female fictional protagonists are gauche, self-doubting, plain and think too much." - Charlotte Mendelson

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