![]() ![]() Normally, I’ll cover the bottom of a tissue box or a shopping list with drawings from the next book I’m working on. ![]() I hadn’t realised, until I got ill, that I draw and write constantly. When we spoke last September, Murphy said: “What I miss at the moment is drawing and writing. However, after she received bad news about her prognosis, her publicist contacted the Observer and explained that Murphy no longer wanted to go public about her illness and was about to undergo intensive chemotherapy. At the time we spoke, the venerated children’s author was feeling hopeful about her chances of containing the aggressive secondary bone cancer that was spreading around her body, following five years of remission from breast cancer. It was one of the last interviews she ever gave, and until now, in accordance with her wishes, has never been published. ![]() The Worst Witch herself, Mildred Hubble, as drawn by Jill Murphy. ![]()
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