Charmian Coates (née Strange) lived in Oxford for nearly 40 years before moving to Blackpool. Her latest romantic novel, First Impressions (Vanguard, £9.99), is set in 1950s Oxford, where the heroine works in an office at the Nuffield Press in Cowley
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