Unsheltered (Omnibus)

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Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver (Omnibus): Episode 2

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver (Omnibus)

Episode 2

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1871: Thatcher has troubles at home. 2016: Willa needs to increase her income.

1871: Thatcher has troubles at home. 2016: Willa needs to increase her income. Read by Patrick Kennedy and Laurel Lefkow.

1874: Thatcher tries to address the issue of his disintegrating home.

2016: Willa tries to uncover a source of income to shore up her equally rundown house.

Barbara Kingsolver's novel interweaves the past and the present to explore the human capacity for resilience and compassion in times of great upheaval.

It is a portrait of life in precarious times - when characters discover that the past has failed to prepare them for the future.

Alternating between two centuries, Kingsolver examines the personal and social shocks that ensue when people’s assumptions about the world and their place in it are shaken to their foundations.

Second omnibus of three abridged by Sian Preece.

Read by Patrick Kennedy and Laurel Lefkow.

Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2018.

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The novel from Barbara Kingsolver, bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible.

Barbara Kingsolver's novel interweaves the past and the present to explore the human capacity for resilience and compassion in times of great upheaval.

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