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A woman becomes a carer for her estranged father.

University lecturer Claire finds herself responsible for the working class father she has barely seen in over forty years. Written by Tara West.

An original short story specially commissioned by BBC Radio 4 from the Northern Irish writer Tara West. As read by Andrea Irvine.

Tara West is a writer from Co Antrim whose published works include two novels and a memoir. She is a doctoral student at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast and is one of BBC Writersroom’s Belfast Voices.

Reader ..... Andrea Irvine
Writer ..... Tara West
Producer ….. Michael Shannon

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