Meg Rosoff
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Someone else to write my books.
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Finding a cure for cystic fibrosis – it would change the life of my niece.
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When I was 14 I went up for Juliet with Zeffirelli and I was hugely disappointed that I didn’t get that.
Work-wise, joining the National Theatre when I was 21.
As a good friend.
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A £400 Zandra Rhodes dress for the royal premiere of The Railway Children. More recently, a Wurlitzer jukebox for my husband’s birthday.
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