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Shipyard Girls author shares precious childhood memories
Sunderland Echo
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22/05/2025
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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six about five six years when I got the first copy of the first book so when the first book
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came through you know and I kind of yeah you know I was just like oh my gosh you know so this book
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and it had my name on but it had my pen name on and it had part of my name on because of the
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rebel I was just like so I took the book and I took my dog um Rosie who's a big sort of bull
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mastiff and we went up to Cleeden Hills because I used to walk her up there and it was a lovely
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clear day of you know a bit biting into the cold and and and I just went well nobody could see me
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and I literally jumped up and down with excitement with this book in my hand I was just like couldn't
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believe it you know it's like a rocky moment yes it was it was very embarrassing
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so
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