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CG Menon - Subjunctive Moods

Clay For Bones

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.

5. Clay For Bones
A woman waits outside a hospital for the second scan on her unborn child, accompanied by her long-dead grandmother, whom she never met.

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 Chetna Pandya.

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