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Book at Bedtime: Deborah Levy - Swimming Home

Book at Bedtime: Deborah Levy - Swimming Home: Episode 3

Swimming Home

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Deborah Levy - Swimming Home

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Strange poet Kitty French brings chaos in her wake. Read by Juliet Aubrey.

'My poem is a conversation with you and no-one else'. Strange poet Kitty French brings chaos in her wake. Read by Juliet Aubrey.

'Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely"

When beautiful Kitty Finch lands in the middle of what seems a conventional holiday set up - two couples, one teenage daughter and a villa in the south of France - no-one quite knows the effect she will have, though at once the ground shifts. 

In the fierce heat of July, fissures yawn open, prised apart by Kitty's unsettling presence. Is she benign? What does she want? Is she an admiring fan or a darker foe? And who is keeping secrets, most of all from themselves?

Deborah Levy's first novel in fifteen years has garnered much praise. Witty and acute by turn, its deceptively simple setting belies the fractured relationships and the sense of imminent chaos that threatens all the characters. In today's episode: 'My poem is a conversation with you and no-one else'. 

Abridged by Sally Marmion
Produced by Elizabeth Allard
The Reader is Juliet Aubrey.

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Deborah Levy's haunting story about the arrival of a strange girl at a holiday in Nice

Deborah Levy's disturbing and haunting story. The arrival of a strange girl, Kitty Finch, in the midst of a holiday in Nice proves explosive

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