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    Love Is Not Enough: A Smart Woman’s Guide to Money
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    Love Is Not Enough: A Smart Woman’s Guide to Money

    By Merryn Somerset Webb

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 4, 2008
    ISBN9780007284023
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    Love Is Not Enough: A Smart Woman’s Guide to Money
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    Merryn Somerset Webb

    Merryn Somerset Webb studied History and Economics at Gonville and Caius College before completing an MA in Japanese at London University. In 1992 she moved to Japan where she produced business programmes for NHK TV. Returning to the UK in 1998, she became a financial writer for The Week before becoming launch editor for Moneyweek. Today she edits Moneyweek, has columns in the Sunday Times and Saga Magazine and is a frequent radio and television commentator on financial matters.

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