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"It all happened suddenly," Ed Wilson of her literary agency Johnson and Alcock told the Guardian newspaper.
"She went in for a check-up because her chest was feeling tight, and she never came out. None of us knew how serious it was."
A London hospital which had been treating her confirmed her death.
Bainbridge, who had cancer, was also noted for her eccentric personal style. One interviewer claimed she was obsessed with teeth and kept a stuffed water buffalo in the hall of her London home.
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"She went in for a check-up because her chest was feeling tight, and she never came out. None of us knew how serious it was."
A London hospital which had been treating her confirmed her death.
Bainbridge, who had cancer, was also noted for her eccentric personal style. One interviewer claimed she was obsessed with teeth and kept a stuffed water buffalo in the hall of her London home.
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