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Book at Bedtime: Julian MacLaren-Ross - Of Love and Hunger

Book at Bedtime: Julian MacLaren-Ross - Of Love and Hunger: Episode 4

Of Love and Hunger

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Julian MacLaren-Ross - Of Love and Hunger

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Looking after Derek's wife Sukie, Richard realises he has fallen in love with her.

Working for a dubious boss and looking after Derek's wife Sukie, Richard realises he has fallen in love with her. Read by Carl Prekopp.

4/5 Julian Maclaren-Ross' darkly comic semi-autobiographical love story about the low life of a struggling salesman in a seaside town. With the shadow of war looming, Richard Fanshawe is eking out an existence selling Sucko vacuum cleaners. He's working for the dubious "Smiler" Barnes. He's looking after his friend Roper's wife Sukie, while Roper is away - and he has fallen in love with her. First published in 1947. 

Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths
Reader: Carl Prekopp
Producer: Beth O'Dea

Music: The Touch Of Your Lips by Hildegarde.

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Darkly comic novel about the low life, as lived by a struggling salesman in 1939

By Julian Maclaren-Ross. Darkly comic novel about the low life, as lived by a struggling salesman in a seaside town in 1939. Read by Carl Prekopp.

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