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Book at Bedtime: Reading Europe - The Truth and Other Lies

Jamie Parker

Sascha Arango

Sally Marmion

Justine Willett

Book at Bedtime: Reading Europe - The Truth and Other Lies: Episode 7: I need to get away from here

Reading Europe - The Truth and Other Lies

Episode 7

Episode 7: I need to get away from here

I need to get away from here

BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime, Reading Europe - The Truth and Other Lies, I need to get away from here

Henry tells his friend Obradin what really happened, with shocking repercussions.

Henry tells his friend Obradin what really happened to his wife, with shocking repercussions.

Radio 4 continues its journey across Europe exploring the best in contemporary literature with this hugely successful German thriller set on a small cliff-top town, in which everyone has a secret.
Famous novelist, with a beautiful wife, grand house in the country and more money than he can spend - Henry Hayden has it all. Or so it seems. His perfect life rests on one carefully constructed lie, a lie he will stop at nothing to protect. But when he makes one fatal error, the whole dream begins to unravel.
Today: Henry tells his friend Obradin the what really happened to his wife, with shocking repercussions...
Reader: Jamie Parker
Abridger: Sally Marmion
Producer: Justine Willett
Writer: Sascha Arango is one of Germany's most renowned screenwriters. This, his first novel, has been a huge bestseller in Germany.
Translated by Imogen Taylor.

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Sascha Arango's dark thriller set in small-town Germany, where everyone has a secret.

Sascha Arango's dark thriller set in small-town Germany, where everyone has a secret. Abridged by Sally Marmion. Read by Jamie Parker.

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