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    Lockdown block

    Feb 04, 2021 4 minutes
    SHELAGH MARTIN Harrow, London

    If you had told me a year ago, I would be able to spend months on end at home – either not working at all, or being able to do it from my dining room table, with no travelling and all my social engagements cancelled, I would have punched the air.

    It would have felt like a gift because I have been writing the same novel for nearly three years and I am desperate to finish it. I have constantly complained that I just need a clear run at the manuscript but now I have been given one, it hasn’t worked out

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