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Madeleine Milburn on running her own literary agency, discovering "Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine" and what makes a perfect book-club book
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Rachel and Simon speak to the literary agent Madeleine Milburn. She started her career in publishing as a foreign rights assistant at A P Watt, the world's first modern literary agency (now part of United Agents). She then moved to Darley Anderson as head of rights, where she represented her own clients and helped set up the children's division. In 2012 she founded the Madeleine Milburn…