Books I love...Author Daisy Goodwin

Author Daisy Goodwin shares her five favourite books that helped inspire her to be a writer.

By Jackie BrownPublished: 19 September 2014

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Books I love

Author Daisy Goodwin shares her favourite reads. Her latest novel The Fortune Hunter, is not out in paperback.

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The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy

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'Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy imagines the thoughs of the wives behind famous men such as Charles Darwin and Shakespeare. It's such a clever idea and the poems are hilarious.'

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Middlemarch by George Eliot

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'Everyone should read Middlemarch by George Eliot at some point in their lives. All human life is there, it's astonishing. I first read it when I was 14, then I picked it up again six months ago and got so much more out of it the second time. It's long and hard but it's worth it.'

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A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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'My favourite children's books of all time is A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I was a lonely child and this book was like a beacon to me.'

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Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe

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'A book I've adored is Love, Nina. It's a collection of the letters Nina Stibbe wrote from London to her sister back home in Leicester describing the adventures she had as a nanny to a literary family.'

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