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A F Steadman in conversation about her world-record-breaking childrens debut

“The message of the book is finding friends who accept you for who you really are. It’s about loving people even when it’s hard, about doing the right thing even when it’s scary”
A F Steadman
A F Steadman
A F Steadman’s début began as a list of promising unicorn names, but following an epiphany in Waterstones, it unfurled into a full-blown mystical realm

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