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Portrait image of Tim Krabbé Foto: Robert Ahlbom / Forflex

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Krabbé, Tim

Hans Maarten Timotheus Krabbé was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where he still lives. His father, Maarten Krabbé, and his grandfather Hendrik Maarten Krabbé where both well-known painters; his mother, Margreet Reiss, was a translator and author of travel books. Tim Krabbé’s brothers are the actor Jeroen Krabbé and the multimedia artist Mirko Krabbé. Krabbé was raised by his mother after his...

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Carole Seddon

Gender: Female

In Simon Brett’s jolly books about the little village of Fethering in Sussex in England, we meet the quiet, sensible, former civil servant Carole Seddon. She is 50+, an everyday type of appearance, has grey hair, is retired and divorced from her husband David. She wants to live a quiet and peaceful life, but she becomes friends with her exuberant bohemian neighbour Jude Nichols and – much to her o...

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