Saskia Sarginson

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Author of Twins and Without You | I live in London, but the setting for my debut novel, The Twins , was largely inspired by my childhood in Suffolk. My sister, brother and I lived with our mother in a tiny cottage in the middle of a pine forest. The deer would often come right up to our front door in the early mornings. We had a couple of ponies, cats, rabbits and goats. My mother allowed us freedom to roam the forest on our own, sometimes on foot, sometimes riding bareback. As children, we lived inside our own fairy-tale world. Suffolk, particularly coastal Suffolk, has continued to inspire me, and several of my other novels are set in its bleakly beautiful landscape: Without You features Orford, with its castle, and its my

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