Dame Jaqueline Wilson reveals the manuscript of her latest children's book was almost lost forever after her friend's dog deleted it from her computer

The author had written The Magic Faraway Tree: A Christmas Adventure, a reworking of the Enid Blyton tales, but was set to tell her publisher she would not be able to hand in the 300-page novel.

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