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Afternoon Reading: A Little More Love in the Afternoon

Afternoon Reading: A Little More Love in the Afternoon: Episode 2: The Gift

The Gift

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Episode 2: The Gift

A Little More Love in the Afternoon

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By Santa Montefiore. Cara attends the sick bed of the man who broke her teenaged heart.

By Santa Montefiore. Cara attends the sick bed of the man who broke her teenaged heart, and makes a decision that will impact both of them. Read by Aoife McMahon.

Series in which leading romantic novelists write short stories inspired by the four word brief : Love in the Afternoon.

"The Gift" by Santa Montefiore.

Read by Aoife McMahon.
Produced by Kirsteen Cameron.

Cara confronts long buried memories when she learns that an old flame is seriously ill in hospital.  Flying out to be by his bedside in Buenos Aires, she makes a decision that will impact on both their futures.

Santa Montefiore was born in England in 1970 to an Anglo-Argentine mother, and read Spanish and Italian at Exeter University.  Her novel "The Italian Matchmaker" was nominated for this year's Romantic Novel of the Year Award.  She lives in London with her husband, the historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, and their children, Lily and Sasha.

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Series of three short stories by leading romantic novelists

Series of three short stories by leading romantic novelists inspired by the four word brief, ''love in the afternoon'

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