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Photo Credit: Jennie Miles Photography 2016 Mary Torjussen is the acclaimed author of Gone Without a Trace and The Girl I Used to Be. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Liverpool John Moores University and worked for several years as a teacher.           What inspired you to pen your first novel? I wrote my very first novel the summer before I was 40. I’d always wanted to write, but always found a reason why I couldn’t. I had two children and worked full time as a teacher, so life was always hectic, but I had an idea buzzing...