Sue Limb (born 1946,

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, Hertfordshire) is a British writer and broadcaster.

Biography

Limb was born in

, Hertfordshire. She studied Elizabethan lyric poetry at

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and then trained in education. While her first published book was a biography of the Antarctic explorer Captain

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co-authored with Patrick Cordingley, later works are predominantly novels – many of them for young adults – and comedies for radio and television, often with a literary or historical setting. Limb's debut novel '' Up the Garden Path'' was adapted as a

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, and subsequently made the transition to ITV television. For Radio 4, she has written a number of comedy series (which pay unusual attention to music and sound-effects): ''The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere'' (a pastiche of the poet