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Clara surprises her brother with an unexpected visit.

An entrepreneur visits her estranged, bohemian brother—a single father of two—in a final bid to fix his children. A Short Work by Caoilinn Hughes. Read by Fenella Woolgar.

An original short work for BBC Radio 4 by the Irish author Caoilinn Hughes. As read by Fenella Woolgar.

Caoilinn Hughes is an Irish writer whose poetry collection 'Gathering Evidence' was awarded the Irish Times Shine/Strong Award and the Patrick Kavanagh Award. Her work has appeared in Tin House, POETRY, Granta, The Rumpus, Best British Poetry, Poetry Ireland, BBC Radio 3 and elsewhere. Her debut novel 'Orchid & The Wasp won the Collyer Bristow Prize. In September 2018 she won first and third prize in The Moth International Short Story Award. In 2019, she won an O. Henry Prize for her story ‘Prime’ which was also longlisted for the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Prize. 

Writer ..... Caoilinn Hughes
Reader ..... Fenella Woolgar

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