• Jean Fullerton, policewoman and district nurse turned novelist on why there is no such thing as an ordinary life.

  • Jan 18 2025
  • Length: 55 mins
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Jean Fullerton, policewoman and district nurse turned novelist on why there is no such thing as an ordinary life.

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    Former policewoman and district nurse turned novelist, Jean Fullerton has written over 20 novels but recently published something a bit closer to home, her memoir, A Child of the East End. In conversation at the Write Idea Festival, Jean shared eye-watering stories of her childhood in Wapping, the curse of family secrets, bum-stamping and sexism in the police force and why we romanticise the past, Jean proves there is no such thing as a ordinary life. I started by asking her what made her bare her soul in the pages of a book…



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