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Jane Hilton

Way Out West

Between the ages of 10 and 18, my life was geared towards being a musician. I grew up in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, and spent every weekend at music school. I couldn’t get enough of learning new instruments – percussion, oboe, violin – and dreamed of becoming a concert pianist. Of course, when you hit your late teens, going out starts to become more important than practising. By the time I was studying music at university, I

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