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Afternoon Reading: Alice Munro - Too Much Happiness

Afternoon Reading: Alice Munro - Too Much Happiness: Episode 1: Free Radicals

Too Much Happiness

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Episode 1: Free Radicals

Alice Munro - Too Much Happiness

Free Radicals

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A newly widowed woman must look to the wife she replaced when a stranger threatens her.

4 Extra Debut. A newly widowed woman must look to the first wife she replaced when a stranger threatens at her own kitchen table. Read by Barbara Barnes.

Series of short stories from the new collection by Canadian author Alice Munro. 

A newly widowed woman, who is herself dying, is alone in the home she and her husband made their own after she had played the role of 'home wrecker' and replaced his first wife. But it is the first wife that she must look to when a stranger threatens at her own kitchen table. 

Read by Barbara Barnes.

Abridged by Sally Marmion.

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Series of short stories from the new collection by Canadian author Alice Munro

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