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Book at Bedtime: Owen Sheers - I Saw a Man: Episode 1

I Saw a Man

Episode 1

Owen Sheers - I Saw a Man

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After losing his wife, Michael Turner develops a close friendship with a family next door.

After the sudden loss of his wife, Michael Turner develops a close friendship with the family next door. Read by Mark Bazeley.

"The event that changed all of their lives happened on a Saturday afternoon in June, just minutes after Michael Turner - thinking the Nelsons' house was empty - stepped through their back door."

After the sudden loss of his wife, writer Michael Turner moves to London and develops a close friendship with the Nelsons, who live next door - Josh, Samantha and their two young daughters Lucy and Rachel. The family seem to represent everything Michael fears he may now never have: intimacy, children, stability and a family home. The new friendship at first seems to offer the prospect of healing, but then a catastrophic event changes everything. 

Owen Sheers' compelling story of the search for truth, the burden of secrets and the desire for redemption. It explores how our lives are interconnected, even in today's increasingly depersonalised, globalised world. 

Owen Sheers is a poet, author and playwright. His first novel, Resistance, was translated into ten languages and adapted into a film. The Dust Diaries, his Zimbabwean non-fiction narrative, won the Welsh Book of the Year. His awards for poetry and drama include the Somerset Maugham Award for Skirrid Hill, The Hay Festival Poetry Medal and the Welsh Book of the Year for Pink Mist. I Saw a Man is his second novel. 

Written by Owen Sheers
Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths
Read by Mark Bazeley
Producer: Mair Bosworth

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015

Book at Bedtime: Owen Sheers - I Saw a Man

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Owen Sheers's compelling story of the search for truth, read by Mark Bazeley.

Owen Sheers's compelling story of the search for truth, the burden of secrets and the desire for redemption. Read by Mark Bazeley and abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths.

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