'How long are you planning on doing that for?’ It was the end of the seventies, and I was chatting to my father about what I planned to do career-wise, having graduated with a degree in French. At the time, I had spent a year abroad teaching in a French high school and two summer vacations looking after (well OK, ‘teaching’) groups of kids doing English courses in my hometown. All I really wanted to do was get back to France and be able to work enough to enjoy life. Maybe even write the novel which was fighting to . . .
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