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Book at Bedtime

Mothering Sunday

Episode 10

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Set in the aftermath of the Great War, Booker prize-winner Graham Swift's new novel is a luminous and sensual meditation on truth, loss and the forging of a writer.

Jane reflects on how her last, secret, assignation with Paul Sheringham would lead indirectly to her future literary success.

Read by Eileen Atkins
Abridged and produced by Eilidh McCreadie. Show less

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