Maeve Binchy

From a Q & A with Maeve Binchy at her publisher's website:

What's the first book you remember reading?

The first book I read was Winnie the Pooh. My father used to read it to me and I used to keep asking, "Where was I?", so he told me I had a house in the Hundred Acre Wood and I believed it.

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Name your favourite literary hero and villain.

Favourite literary hero is Leopold Bloom in James Joyce's Ulysses. My choice of villain is the weak, wishy-washy unnamed narrator of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, a woman so spineless and lifeless she did not deserve to survive.

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