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Publisher's Insight: Portmanteau interviews a non-reader

  "Reading a book with no obvious value just doesn't intrigue me" Portmanteau:   Thanks for joining me! So to give the readers some context to begin with, tell me a little bit about you? M: I’m Molly, I just graduated from King's College University from an MSc in Early Intervention in Psychosis , and I’m now a trainee PWP [Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner] at University College London. Basically, all things psychology! P: Because we live together, I know that you don’t read very much. Has that always been the case? M: I used to read when I was young; a lot actually, and I would always get really excited for primary school book fairs. I used to love the feeling and smell of a new book, so I read loads when I was little. Then I moved on to audiobooks. N ot the sort you’d think of nowadays, but like a cassette tape, and that's how I used to listen to Tracy Beaker and other stories like that. P: You say Tracy Beaker as an example, does that mean you stopped

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