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Short Works: Zoe Gilbert - Folk: The True Tale of Jack Frost

Short Works: Zoe Gilbert - Folk

The True Tale of Jack Frost

Zoe Gilbert - Folk

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Short Works, Zoe Gilbert - Folk, The True Tale of Jack Frost

Grey desires her sister’s lover, a stranger in the winter woods.

After following March meeting a stranger in the winter woods, Grey wants her sister’s lover for her own. Read by Samantha Spiro.

March abandons her chores for an assignation with a stranger in the winter woods. When her sister Grey follows and watches her, she decides she wants the lover for her own.

Zoe Gilbert’s debut novel ‘Folk’ conjures up a series of dark and bewitching tales from a remote mythical island – Neverness - a place ripe with shadowy secrets and magic, and where its villagers’ lives are entwined with nature: its enchantments, seductions and dangers. 

Read by Samantha Spiro.

Producer/abridger: Jeremy Osborne

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Zoe Gilbert's debut novel with series of dark and bewitching tales.

Adaptation of Zoe Gilbert's debut novel - a series of dark and bewitching tales set on the remote, mythical island of Neverness.

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