Jacqueline

Lira, who is married to Girardi’s daughter Jacqueline, began working at his father-in-law’s firm in 1999.

She said if someone were to tell her childhood self that she could go somewhere and meet writers, breathe the same air as Jacqueline Wilson and then in the future become a writer herself, "her head would explode".

Dame Jacqueline recently brought back Ellie, Magda and Nadine in her adult fiction book Think Again, a continuation of her Girls in Love novels.

Despite having written more than 100 books, Dame Jacqueline said she still felt anxious when writing.

When she did doze off, Dame Jacqueline said she wanted to sleep too but used the short window available to write.