Welsh erotic-romance author Poppy Flynn is a force to be reckoned with. Flynn grew up in Ceredigion, a rural part of Wales where the village school had only 30 children and only boys in her class.

“It was so off the beaten track that none of the children in the local school spoke English as a first language and I got a fairly fast track immersion into the Welsh language which is very commonly spoken in the deep parts of Wales,” Flynn says. “My love of reading was born there … plus my mother decided we didn’t need a television.”

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