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Book at Bedtime: Paradise Lodge

Alice Lowe

Nina Stibbe

Mair Bosworth

Book at Bedtime: Paradise Lodge: Episode 6

Paradise Lodge

Episode 6

BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime, Paradise Lodge, Episode 6

Coming-of-age comedy by Nina Stibbe, author of Love, Nina.

When a new old people's home threatens to poach all their patients, Paradise Lodge must fight for survival. Read by Alice Lowe.

Leicestershire, 1977. 

Craving independence, frustrated with her dysfunctional family and fed up with not being able to afford branded shampoo, 15-year-old Lizzie Vogel takes a job at Paradise Lodge, a nursing home for the elderly. 

She soon learns the ways of the 'comfort round' and gets used to the scheming of her eccentric co-workers, but finds herself distracted by thoughts of 'erotic handholding' with her friend Miranda's boyfriend, Mike Yu. 

When a new old people's home threatens to poach all their patients, Paradise Lodge must fight for survival. And as Lizzie gets increasingly drawn in to keeping the crumbling home afloat, her job threatens to impact her schoolwork and she must choose which path to take. 

A wise, moving and funny new coming-of-age novel from Nina Stibbe, the bestselling author of 'Love, Nina'. 

Read by Alice Lowe
Produced by Mair Bosworth.

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Coming-of-age comedy by Nina Stibbe. Read by Alice Lowe.

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