Midwinter Break (Omnibus)

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Frances Tomelty

Bernard MacLaverty

Kirsteen Cameron

Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty (Omnibus): Episode 1

Midwinter Break

Episode 1

Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty (Omnibus)

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On holiday in Amsterdam, retired couple Stella and Gerry find uncertainties between them.

On holiday in Amsterdam, retired couple Stella and Gerry discover uncertainties between them. Read by Frances Tomelty.

A retired couple, Stella and Gerry Gilmore, fly from their home in Glasgow to Amsterdam for a long weekend: a holiday to refresh the senses, to do some sightseeing, to take stock. Gerry, once an architect, is a heavy drinker who is set in his ways. 

Stella is tired of his lifestyle, worried about their marriage and angry at his constant undermining of her religious faith. Their relationship seems safe, easy, familiar but over the course of a few days we discover the deep uncertainties that exist between them.

The novel has been described by Colm Toibin as: "...a work of extraordinary emotional precision and sympathy, about coming to terms - to an honest reckoning - with love and the loss of love, with memory and pain... This is a novel of great ambition by an artist at the height of his powers."

Omnibus of the first five of 10 parts abridged by Robin Brooks.

Read by Frances Tomelty.  

Producer: Kirsteen Cameron.
 
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2017

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