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by Liz Jones
IF KERRY HUDSON portrays working-class life with such sensitivity, humour and warmth, it is because she knows it well.
Describing herself as “proudly working class” but “never proudly poor,” her fiction is set among the poor and the marginalised, the class she was born into.
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