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Its pretty rare to find an author who started off selfpublishing, landed a multibook deal with a big publisher, and then decided to go back to doing it herself but thats exactly what polly courtney has done. Born in south london and a resident of ealing, an area affected by the london riots, polly wrote feral youth to give a voice to the thousands of frustrated youths who, like alesha, feel marginalised and ignored by the rest of society. Although he has only released one ep to date, barns courtney has already surpassed 65 million combined streams globally with nearly half of those streams in the u. Outlook free personal email and calendar from microsoft. Official trailer for the novel feral youth by polly courtney 20. She lives and writes in canada, where she divides her time between a piano, a camera, and a wordprocessing program when shes.
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