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Hard Times:A book club aimed at mothers and daughters aims to improve relationships through a love of reading

AVID READER and writer Maisie Gorman (11) keeps a diary – “but I can’t reveal anything from that”, she says solemnly. She has no idea if her mother, Sharon Cromwell, kept a diary when she was 11: “I don’t think she did.”