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Harriet said, You shouldn't have reminded me to sign that book, Peter.Why ever not? Have you suddenly become bashful about your hard-earned glories?

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Harriet said, You shouldn't have reminded me to sign that book, Peter.Why ever not? Have you suddenly become bashful about your hard-earned glories?

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About Jill Paton Walsh

Gillian Honorine Mary Herbert, Baroness Hemingford, (née Bliss; 29 April 1937 – 18 October 2020), known professionally as Jill Paton Walsh, was an English novelist and children's writer. She may be known best for her Booker Prize-nominated novel Knowledge of Angels and for the Peter Wimsey–Harriet Vane mysteries that continued the work of Dorothy L. Sayers.