Summary
FANS of Ulrika Jonsson might expect her debut novel, The Importance Of Being Myrtle, to be a steamy "bonkbuster", featuring at least one lurid affair, a string of failed marriages and a handful of celebrity misdemeanours.
But then, as Jonsson explains at a hotel in Henley, Oxon, near her country home, she didn't want her first book to be an extension of her own life and indeed, it isn't.See the full content of this document
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The Importance of Being Ulrika
"People would be expecting me to write about the world of television or showbiz with lots of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. That would be too predictable.
I wanted to stretch myself."Today, looking painfully thin, which she puts down to her depression due to a four-year battle with a chronic, agonising b...See the full content of this document
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