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Claire Lynch: 'The key is to simply tell your story in your own way'

In this interview, award-winning author and tutor of our Writing Your Memoir – Three Months course, shares her advice for budding writers. 'The book and the process of becoming a mother are entangled for me but I was very careful to draw a protective line around my family too.

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