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D'Alessandro, Ruth

is the daughter of police parents and was born and brought up in Berkshire; studied Modern Arabic at Durham University, and worked for 10 years with Librairie du Liban, the Middle East’s largest reference publisher; later worked as a freelance educational writer, then built up a business as a commercial digital content writer; author of the Crockford trilogy, telling her mother’s story as a policewoman in 1950s and 1960s Britain