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Jessie Kesson Short Stories

Lizzy Watts

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Kirsteen Cameron

Jessie Kesson Short Stories: Episode 2: Cold in Coventry

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A young woman fears for her future when she is dismissed from her first job in service.

Cold in Coventry: A young woman fears for her future as she returns in disgrace from her first job in service. Read by Lizzy Watts. From September 2014.

The second in a series of readings from the work of the acclaimed Scottish author Jessie Kesson. Best known for her novels "Another Time, Another Place" and "The White Bird Passes", Jessie Kesson's writing was often inspired by events from her own life and by the landscape of North East Scotland.

Tonight, a poignant short story that evokes a young orphan girl's fears for her future when she returns 'In Disgrace' from her first job in service, to face the formidable Madam Superintendent of the Training Institution for Destitute Girls. 

Jessie Kesson (1916 - 1994) was a prolific writer of novels, poems, stories, newspaper features and radio plays. She came through a hard start in life (born in the Inverness workhouse, raised in an Elgin slum, removed from her neglectful but much-loved mother to an orphanage in Aberdeenshire) with a passionate determination to be a writer. She combined a successful writing career with a variety of jobs, from cleaner to artist's model, and was a social worker for nearly twenty years, settling finally in London with her husband.

Reader ..... Lizzy Watts
Abridger ..... Kirsteen Cameron
Producer ..... Kirsteen Cameron.

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Inspired by events from the author's own life and the landscape of North East Scotland.

Readings from the work of the acclaimed Scottish author Jessie Kesson, whose writing was often inspired by events from her own life and by the landscape of North East Scotland.

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