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The waitress who wowed Richard & Judy; Rachel Zadok was this week shortlisted for the Whitbread first novel award with a haunting story she wrote while working in a Herne Hill cafe. Here she gives her first interview.
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Byline: EMINE SANER
I MEET Rachel Zadok in a cafe in Herne Hill. She knows the staff - until recently she worked as a waitress in the cafe's sister restaurant nearby. For four years she spent her evenings serving up the likes of risotto and goat's cheese salads to locals, leaving her days free to write her first book.
In the south London flat she shared with her husband, a doctor, the South African-born writer crafted a haunting story of Faith, a child whose parents' marriage breaks up and whose mother descends into mental illness, all set against an ...
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