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Short Works: Magpie by Julia Armfield

Magpie by Julia Armfield

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Open houses, onward chains and lingering presences. Read by Caroline Lennon.

“Compact….a rare and lovely find". But is there a lingering presence in this house for sale? Read by Caroline Lennon.

"Compact, the listing read, well-situated. A rare and lovely find." 

An original short story for radio by Julia Armfield about open houses, onward chains and lingering presences. 

Read by Caroline Lennon

Julia Armfield lives and works in London. She is a fiction writer and occasional playwright with a Master’s in Victorian Art and Literature from Royal Holloway University. Her work has been published in Lighthouse, Analog Magazine, Neon Magazine and Best British Short Stories 2019. 

She was commended in the Moth Short Story Prize 2017, long-listed for the Deborah Rogers Prize 2018 and was the winner of The White Review Short Story Prize 2018. Her debut collection, salt slow, was published by Picador in 2019.

Producer: Mair Bosworth

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2019.

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