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Portrait image of Joyce Carol Oates Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2023)

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Oates, Joyce Carol

American author, born into a Protestant working-class family in the little town of Lockport in the western part of the state of New York. The family had a difficult economic situation and she spent most of her childhood and adolescence with her paternal grandparents on a farm in Erie. As a child, she liked to read and write; she got her first book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, from her g...

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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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