Jessica Duchen was born in London, where her parents settled after leaving South Africa in the 1950s. She regrets that she can't remember her encounter with JR Tolkein in Oxford at the age of six, which has become a family legend. She first tried to write a novel at the age of 12. Her efforts soon found their way into the hands of a distinguished author and a literary agent, who both 

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