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Eleanor Updale (born 1953) is the author of the Montmorency Series. She has written four novels and some short stories, and has won several awards for her writing.
Biography
Eleanor Updale was born in 1953 and grew up in
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. She studied history at St. Anne's College, Oxford,
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before becoming a producer of television and radio current affairs programs for the
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. She studied at the new Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at
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, and was awarded a Ph.D in 2007. She is also a trustee of the charity Listening Books. Updale lives in England;
Montmorency was her first book.
She is married to broadcaster
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.
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