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Short Works: Zoe Gilbert - Folk: Swirling Cleft

Short Works: Zoe Gilbert - Folk

Swirling Cleft

Zoe Gilbert - Folk

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Short Works, Zoe Gilbert - Folk, Swirling Cleft

Gad is sent into forbidden territory to find an unusual remedy for her sick baby sister.

When her baby sister falls ill, Gad is sent into forbidden territory to find an unusual remedy. Read by Samantha Spiro.

Gad's strange mother, Sil, is not from Neverness, and may not even be her natural mother. 

When her baby sister falls ill, Gad is sent into forbidden territory to find an unusual remedy.

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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