Bella Freud
British fashion designer
A more even mood.
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Which book are you ashamed not to have read?
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Death & what remains
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Getting rid of my phone.
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I have the invisibility of a middle-aged woman. I live in Brighton, and feel for the first time in my life that I belong. My kids are safe, my husband’s in a good place and we have a roof over our head: I can’t imagine needing more than that.
A few zeros on my bank balance.
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A whole ton of money, to solve the problem of keeping the rescued big cats at the reserve safe.
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Cheerful, sensitive, sassy.
None! We shouldn’t shame people for not having read “the greats”. There are always new greats emerging that may feel more relevant to our life experience, particularly female writers.
I would get therapy in my early 20s.
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