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LIVED EXPERIENCE

It’s a strange thing to look back on all the places you’ve called home. Sit down with a pen and paper and make a list. Before speaking to author Kieran Yates about her new book: All the Houses I’ve Ever Lived In, I made mine. I counted 18 homes by the age of 29. Is that normal?

Maybe, maybe not. But Yates has me well beaten. By the age of 25, she’d lived in 20 different houses across the country. There’s the childhood flat in a car

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