A Quote by Jane Green

I was twenty-seven when I came up with the idea for my first novel.

Jane Green

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Jane Green
English - Author
Born: May 31, 1968

In 2011, I did an internship in Seven Dials, a junction in London where seven roads come together. I'd given up on writing after multiple rejections for my first novel, and I was starting to consider a career in publishing instead, but Seven Dials gave me such a strong idea for a setting that I couldn't resist picking up my pen again.

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