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Sara Cox

Eimear McBride

Beth O'Dea

A Good Read: Sara Cox and Eimear McBride

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18/07/2017

Sara Cox and Eimear McBride

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Sara Cox and Eimear McBride talk about books they love with presenter Harriett Gilbert.

Presenter Sara Cox and Eimear McBride, author of A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, talk about books they love with Harriett Gilbert. From South Korea to old Hollywood via France.

Presenter Sara Cox & Eimear McBride, author of A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, talk about books they love with Harriett Gilbert.
Sara's is The Vegetarian: A Novel by Han Kang, a strange and darkly compelling South Korean story about a woman who decides to give up eating meat as an act of passive rebellion against an intolerable family. 
Eimear recommends Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Léger, in which a French researcher tries to write a biography of the film actress Barbara Loden. She's now nearly forgotten despite being the first woman to write, direct and star in her own feature film, Wanda, which won the International Critics Award at the 1970 Venice Film Festival. 
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels is Harriett's pick. A novel about a boy surviving the holocaust which is really an expression of love and of the resilience of the human spirit. 
Producer Beth O'Dea.

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