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Woman's Hour: Rosamund Lupton's love affair with the Northern Alaskan landscape, Does anorexia have a genetic link?

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29/06/2015

Rosamund Lupton's love affair with the Northern Alaskan landscape, Does anorexia have a genetic link?

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Rosamund Lupton's love affair with the Northern Alaskan landscape, Does anorexia have a genetic link?

Rosamund Lupton talks about setting her novel in the extreme landscape of northern Alaska.

Rosamund Lupton talks about her latest novel. Plus a discussion on whether eating disorders have a genetic link and how to help people recover faster. With Jane Garvey.

Her first novel, Sister, was the fastest selling by a debut author and is due to be made into a film starring Emily Blunt. Rosamund Lupton's latest thriller, set in the extreme landscape of Northern Alaska features a woman and her profoundly deaf 10 year old daughter trying to find out the truth about the disappearance of her husband. Jane Garvey talks to her about the new book and her love affair with Alaska.

Do eating disorders have a genetic link? And could early intervention, help sufferers of anorexia and bulimia recover faster. 

Author Georgina Howell talks about her book Queen of the Desert - this week's Radio 4 Book of the Week. It's a biography Gertrude Bell drawn from letters written throughout her life and documents her phenomenal rise through the all-male ranks of military intelligence. But who is the real Gertrude Bell? 

Presented by Jane Garvey
Producer Beverley Purcell.

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