Kate Mosse
English writer
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
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If you had only one day left to live, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid doing?
Death & what remains
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Not getting proper dance lessons as a young person. I was a serious flamer.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 July 2011 source ↗
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View profile →I would probably want to cook a decent turkey. Whether it was my mother or my sister, growing up in a matriarchal family in America, they always cooked the best turkeys and kinda ruled my life that way, so I would like one crack at it. I’d put a turkey in the oven, and that would give me a good five hours to do some other stuff.
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