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Book at Bedtime: The House on Paradise Street

Book at Bedtime: The House on Paradise Street: Episode 1

The House on Paradise Street

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime, The House on Paradise Street, Episode 1

When her Greek husband dies in a car crash, Maud becomes curious about his family's past.

When her Greek husband Nikitas dies in a mysterious car crash, Maud becomes curious about his family's troubled past.

1/10 Sofka Zinovieff's novel explores the long and tragic legacy of the Greek Civil War through a gripping story set in contemporary Athens. When Maud's Greek husband Nikitas dies in a mysterious car crash, Maud becomes curious about his family's troubled past. His mother, Antigone, now lives in Moscow, estranged from the family for nearly sixty years after abandoning her young son. Antigone has never been back to Greece, but now Maud needs to let her exiled mother-in-law know that her son is dead. Abridged by Sarah LeFanu 

Readers: Lucy Briers and Ann Beach
Producer: Sara Davies.

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By Sofka Zinovieff. An English widow tries to discover her Greek husband's family history

Sofka Zinovieff's novel set in contemporary Greece about an English widow's quest to piece together the wartime origins of her husband's troubled family history

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