Three snapshots of Italian life written in the past 15 years. The first story - Journey in Red Shoes by Simona Vinci - has a dark and troubling undercurrent as a single mother and her three daughters travel back to her family in Bologna. The youngest girl has been crying without cease for days and her two half sisters are struggling to deal with it. So too is their mother who cannot fathom why her four year old is so full of inarticulate despair.

Simona Vinci was born in 1970 in Milan. She studied and now lives in Bologna and, early in her career, was part of a group of young writers who published the online magazine, Incubatoio 16. She is one of the authors most commonly associated with the Giovani Cannibali (Young Cannibals) movement.

"Simona Vinci's collection of short stories - In Every Sense Like Love - translated by Minna Proctor, recalls early Ian McEwan" (Rachel Cusk , Daily Telegraph).

Written by Simona Vinci
Translated by Minna Proctor
Read by Carly Bawden and Lia Williams
Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. Show less