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Short Works: The Treehouse by SK Perry

The Treehouse by SK Perry

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Put your ear to the tree trunk and listen. An original short work for radio by SK Perry.

Put your ear to the tree trunk and listen. A tale about love, death and talking to trees, written and read by SK Perry.

"We rested our backs on the trunk of the tree. At first I could only hear myself, chewing. But after a while I thought I heard it too". 

An original short work for radio about love, death and talking to trees, written and read by the novelist and poet SK Perry. 

Especially commissioned by BBC Radio 4.

Sarah's debut novel Let Me Be Like Water was published in 2018 in the UK and the US by Melville House. 

She is currently a PhD candidate at Manchester Metropolitan University, funded to write her next novel and to research depictions of sex in literary prose by the NWCDTP. Born in Croydon, Sarah's background is in campaigning, education, and gender equalities. She currently lives in Leeds.

Producer:  Mair Bosworth

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2018.

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