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Jean Fullerton, policewoman and district nurse turned novelist on why there is no such thing as an ordinary life.

Jean Fullerton, policewoman and district nurse turned novelist on why there is no such thing as an ordinary life.

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Former policewoman and district nurse turned novelist, Jean Fullerton has written over 20 novels but recently published something a bit closer to home, her memoir, A Child of the East End. In conversation at the Write Idea Festival, Jean shared eye-watering stories of her childhood in Wapping, the curse of family secrets, bum-stamping and sexism in the police force and why we romanticise the past, Jean proves there is no such thing as a ordinary life. I started by asking her what made her bare her soul in the pages of a book…



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