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Book of the Week: Tim Winton: Land's Edge - A Coastal Memoir

Book of the Week: Tim Winton: Land's Edge - A Coastal Memoir: Episode 4

Land's Edge - A Coastal Memoir

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Tim Winton: Land's Edge - A Coastal Memoir

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Tim Winton: Land's Edge - A Coastal Memoir, Episode 4

Tim Winton marvels at the joys of beachcombing, of finding 'gifts and signs' on the shore.

Tim Winton's memoir holds that a fear of the sea is essential and marvels at the joys of beachcombing. Read by Stephen Dillane.

by Tim Winton. 

The acclaimed Australian author discovers that his relationship with the sea is echoed in his children and their delight in beachcombing: "Gifts and signs wash ashore here on the hard white beach, and I stoop with my kids, some days, and pick them up and hold them to the light."


Read by Stephen Dillane 


Abridged and produced by Gaynor Macfarlane.

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Tim Winton reflects on how childhood days spent at the coast have shaped his whole life

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