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The author of more than 40 books for children and adults has died, aged 87.
Nina Bawden, who has died aged 87, produced more than 40 novels for adults and children over 50 years.
Her writing was driven by a desire to mine her own experiences which led her, from 1963, to write a children's book one year and an adult novel the next.
As a baby, Nina was brought up with Pat, the daughter of her father's earlier marriage, until this nine-year-old girl was expelled forever from the house. It was only 25 years later that she discovered the existence of this half-sister.
She and her two younger brothers grew up in Goodmayes, Essex, near the London Docks in...