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Patrick Skene Catling

Patrick Skene Catling was born in London and educated there at University College School and in the United States at Oberlin College. He spent many years as a journalist, covering wars, revolutions and showbiz eccentricities (see Better than Working). His book for children, The Chocolate Touch, has sold more than a million copies. He says he feels equally at home and equally alien on both sides of the Atlantic, but finally has settled most comfortably in the Republic of Ireland with Diana, his partner for the past forty years. He has four middle-aged children and innumerable further descendants, dispersed from California to Thailand, and a cat. (Somerville Press)

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