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Eloise has a bit of a history with swords, particularly stabbing people with swords. Indeed, it is said that she was once an Olympic fencer. Others say she won 3 Commonwealth gold medals at sword-fighting. And there are some who whisper that she could probably kill you in a duel. Luckily, she has recently discovered the pen is mightier than the sword. Her first book is out this May, published by Chicken House. It stars the sort of swashbuckling action-adventure heroine that she wished she could have read about as a kid. She read English Language and Literature at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University, studying terribly fancy grown-up authors like Chaucer, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf. However, really she prefers reading middle-grade fiction. Especially if it features fearless female protagonists and super-evil villains. Perhaps unsurprisingly, she has a shocking author crush on Katherine Rundell and Philip Pullman. She also works as a creative director in advertising, coming up with marvelously inane concepts for everything from motorbikes to tampons. And when she's not doing that, she's probably at home being bossed about by her one husband, two boys, two pet hamsters and twelve very greedy pet fish.
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