Sandi Toksvig says books 'saved her life' after being expelled from three schools
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mirror.co.ukSandi Toksvig says books “saved her life” when she risked going off the rails as a teen. The former Bake Off star, 62, was expelled from three US schools before her parents decided to try an English boarding school.
She said: “The first six weeks I lived in the UK nobody spoke to me. It was painful and difficult. “I discovered a fantastic second-hand book shop which saved my life. "They used to save books for me for almost no money.
I still have many, it is where I discovered Jane Austen and all manner of writers. “And then I suspect I started to be funny and cracked them through laughter.
People did speak to me.” Speaking to close the online Hay Festival, Sandi, who was born in Denmark, also said she could do a better job as PM.
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