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IN CONVERSATION WITH Dorothy KOOMSON

Known as ‘the Queen of the Big Reveal’, multi-award-winning novelist Dorothy Koomson has had huge success, not least having her third book, My Best Friend’s Girl, picked for the Richard & Judy Book Club, and The Ice Cream Girls turned into a TV series.

Her defining moment, though, was seeing her novel in bookshops for the first time. In Dorothy’s 18th novel, My Other Husband, we meet Cleo, who can’t clear her name without exposing her deepest secrets.

Dorothy lives in Brighton with her two Yorkies, Jollof and Fufu.

Characters, like people, are multidimensional. Very few of us are any one thing at any one time. We sometimes have

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