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The famously reclusive millionaire writer JK Rowling has revealed that even as a child she hid away from the world, burying herself in books and daydreams.
She describes herself as a "squat, bespectacled child" and admits that she was as obsessed with Jane Austen as many of her readers are with her tales of Harry Potter.
But while Rowling's fans might whizz through Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban just to start reading it all over again, Rowling ploughed through Austen's Emma at "least 20 times".
But, most surprisingly, the single-mother chose Vladimir Nabakov's Lolita, the controversial tale...