Local author Carole Payne was born in Forest Gate in 1950, the second of six children, after her family fled India, the country that had been their home for generations, but where it had become too dangerous to remain.
Local author Carole Payne was born in Forest Gate in 1950, the second of six children, after her family fled India, the country that had been their home for generations, but where it had become too dangerous to remain.
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