Nailed It!

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Mel Campbell. Nailed It!

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A nail was such a small thing, Rose thought. But when you had to make 7000 of them by hand, store-bought nails seemed like an unimaginable luxury.

‘Stop staring at those nails and come on!’ said her boss Old Steve, striding ahead down the aisle of Gruntings Hardwarehouse.

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They hadn’t neglected Rose, exactly. She’d received an excellent humanities-based education. But Rose had a practical mind and a bent for problem-solving. From an early age, it became clear she just wasn’t temperamentally suited to the arts industry. For instance, when they’d all watched Pink Floyd’s The Wall together, Rose – who was eight – had made the mistake of saying she liked the wall.

‘No,’ Alan had gasped, ‘walls are bad!’

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