The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend 

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Katarina Bivald - The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend: 3. Decision

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Katarina Bivald - The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

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Sara  decides to make the most of her time in Broken Wheel and plans to open a bookstore.

Discovering that her pen pal Amy has died, Sara decides to use Amy's books to open a bookstore there. Stars Anna Koval.

Sara decides to make the most of her time in Broken Wheel, starting with her decision to use Amy's books to open a bookstore there.

Katarina Bivald's warm, funny and moving story of love and friendship was first published in Swedish.

The heroine Sara has left  native Sweden to visit her much older pen pal Amy in a remote part of Iowa, a town aptly called Broken Wheel. But, when she arrived, all was not as she had foreseen.

Unexpectedly, she finds herself falling in love with the whole town...

Translated by Alice Menzies.

Dramatised by Jeremy Raison.

Sara ...... Anna Koval
Tom ...... Richard Goulding
Caroline ...... Lorelei King
Jen ...... Laurel Lefkow
Amy ...... Adjoa Andoh
George ...... William Hope
Andy ...... Martin T Sherman
Grace ...... Kate Harper
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Director: Cherry Cookson

A Wireless Theatre production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2019.

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Dramatisation of Katarina Bivald's novel - a warm and moving story of love and friendship.

Dramatisation of Katarina Bivald's novel. Sara leaves her native Sweden to visit her much older pen pal Amy in a remote part of Iowa, a town aptly called Broken Wheel.

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