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CG Menon - Subjunctive Moods

Dust And Spices

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Subjunctive Moods

Five tales of loss, love and betrayal from the collection by C.G. Menon.

3. Dust And Spices
An old family photograph sends Mohan into a rich world of memories of Kuala Lumpur and Lipis.

CG Menon has won the Bare Fiction Prize, the Leicester Writes Prize, The Short Story Award, the Asian Writer Prize, The TBL Short Story Award and the Winchester Writers Festival award. Subjunctive Moods, her debut collection of short stories, was published in 2018. Her first novel, Fragile Monsters, will be published in 2021.
Read by Paul Bazely.

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