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Book at Bedtime: A Snow Garden and Other Stories

Rachel Joyce

Gemma McMullan

Book at Bedtime: A Snow Garden and Other Stories: Episode 1: A Faraway Smell of Lemon

A Snow Garden and Other Stories

Episode 1

Episode 1: A Faraway Smell of Lemon

A Faraway Smell of Lemon

BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime, A Snow Garden and Other Stories, A Faraway Smell of Lemon

It is almost Christmas, but Binny is struggling to find her festive spirit.

Ducking out of the rain, a woman finds herself in an unusual shop that might just offer her the gift she needs most this Christmas.

Rachel Joyce's new collection "A Snow Garden and Other Stories" glides through the festive season with interlinked stories which delight and surprise. From an unexpected birth at an airport full of stranded travellers, a famous son wanting to escape the madness for a normal family dinner, to a divorced father's wish to give his two little boys the one thing they really want, a white Christmas. Five stories as funny, joyous, poignant and memorable as Christmas should be.

Rachel Joyce is the author of the Sunday Times and international bestsellers The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Perfect and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and has been translated into 34 languages. 

She is the award-winning writer of over 30 original afternoon plays and classic adaptations for BBC Radio 4. 

Read by ..... Rachel Joyce 
Produced & Directed by ..... Gemma McMullan.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Serialised reading of Rachel Joyce's Christmas story collection.

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