Shipyard Girls author shares precious childhood memories

LISTEN as Shipyard Girls author Amanda Revell Walton - aka Nancy Revell - re-lives her amazing memories of having her first book published.

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00:00six about five six years when I got the first copy of the first book so when the first book

00:07came through you know and I kind of yeah you know I was just like oh my gosh you know so this book

00:11and it had my name on but it had my pen name on and it had part of my name on because of the

00:15rebel I was just like so I took the book and I took my dog um Rosie who's a big sort of bull

00:23mastiff and we went up to Cleeden Hills because I used to walk her up there and it was a lovely

00:28clear day of you know a bit biting into the cold and and and I just went well nobody could see me

00:34and I literally jumped up and down with excitement with this book in my hand I was just like couldn't

00:39believe it you know it's like a rocky moment yes it was it was very embarrassing

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