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06/03/2012 GMT

Jacqueline Wilson - Children's author

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Jacqueline Wilson talks to Sarah Montague, the most borrowed author from British libraries

Jacqueline Wilson talks to Sarah Montague, the most borrowed author from British libraries.

Over the past ten years Jacqueline Wilson has been the most borrowed author from British libraries. 

She's sold 30 million of her books just in the UK - and written nearly a hundred of them over the years - girls love them. 

They almost always focus on a young girl in a difficult family usually being brought up single-handedly by her mother, sometimes with an abusive stepfather. 

And often featuring drink or drugs. 

So why does she draw on such bleak territory?

Jacqueline Wilson talks to Sarah Montague

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