Beginner’s pluck: Writer and freelance journalist Caroline Madden

When the young Caroline wasn’t reading, she was working in a riding school and writing about ponies.

“When I was eight or nine, a pony magazine published my poem. That was the lightbulb moment; I knew what I wanted to do with my life,” she said.

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