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Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books, talking to authors and publishers and unearthing lost classics

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Open Book: Virginia Baily - Early One Morning, Jacqueline Wilson on What Katy Did

Virginia Baily - Early One Morning, Jacqueline Wilson on What Katy Did

26/07/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Virginia Baily - Early One Morning, Jacqueline Wilson on What Katy Did

Jacqueline Wilson talks to Mariella about updating children's classic What Katy Did.

Jacqueline Wilson discusses updating children's classic What Katy Did, and Virginia Baily talks about her new novel, Early One Morning, set in Rome during WWII and the 1970s.

Mega selling children's writer Jacqueline Wilson talks to Mariella Frostrup about her new book - an updated version of the classic, What Katy Did. The Victorian version is highly moral in its tone: the heroine learns to be kinder, nicer and even tidier after a terrible accident leaves her paralysed. Jacqueline Wilson talks about reinventing the story for modern readers while keeping the best of the original.

Virginia Baily's new novel, Early One Morning, is set in Rome and shifts between the Second World War and the 1970s. It tells the story of Chiara, who rescues a young Jewish boy in 1943 and lives with the consequences of that moment for the rest of her life. Virginia discusses her love of Rome and the real life incident that inspired her story. 

Ideas Boxes are new portable libraries which are being sent to deprived areas around the world, we hear how it's working in the Bronx in New York. Finally an editor recommends a title - a new take on crime fiction - from a rival publishing house.

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