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An old-fashioned Gothic story for teenagers has beaten Julie Burchill's book about lesbian love to win a prize dedicated to writing for young people. Sarah Singleton, 39, a local newspaper journalist and mother of two daughters, has won the £1,500 Booktrust Teenage Prize 2005 with her first novel for children, Century.
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