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Jackie Copleton

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A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding is journalist Jackie Copleton's debut novel and is inspired by her time living in Nagasaki in the 1990s after completing a degree in English at Cambridge University. It is a Richard and Judy summer book club pick, was long-listed for the Women's Prize for Fiction and was a Radio 2 Book Club pick ...more

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“The voice of the waves That rise before me Is not so loud As my weeping, That I am left behind. – Thousand-year-old Japanese poem”
― Jackie Copleton, A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding

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“death’s greatest cruelty is to claim the wrong people.”
― Jackie Copleton, A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding

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