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She wrote her first television play, A Catching Complaint, in 1966. A second, called The Fat Woman's Tale, became a novel - The Fat Woman's Joke - published in 1967. Another 30 further novels followed, along with screenplays, adaptations, stage plays, radio plays, short stories and non-fiction.