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Vinegar Girl 

Liza Ross

Anne Tyler

Isobel Creed

Jill Waters

Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler: Episode 1

Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler, Episode 1

Anne Tyler's contemporary response to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.

4 Extra Debut. Kate Battista and 15 year old sister, Bianca, live with their widowed father, a dedicated research scientist. Read by Liza Ross.

Anne Tyler's contemporary response to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew follows the story of college drop-out Kate Battista, who keeps house for her widowed father and 15 year old sister, Bianca. 

Kate also works at a preschool nursery where her forthright ways win her the affection of the children but are not appreciated by the school's principal who would prefer her to exercise a little tact, restraint and diplomacy when dealing with the parents. 

When her obsessively dedicated scientist father makes uncharacteristic use of his mobile phone to summon her to his lab, she is not prepared for what he has in mind. 

Anne Tyler's previous novels include Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1983), The Accidental Tourist (1985) and Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with Breathing Lessons winning the prize for 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence.

Read by Liza Ross

Abridged by Isobel Creed
Producer: Jill Waters 

A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in June 2016.

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