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Led by James Naughtie, readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best-known novels

Led by James Naughtie, a group of readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best-known novels

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Bookclub: Diana Evans

05/06/2022

Diana Evans

BBC Radio 4 - Bookclub, Diana Evans

James Naughtie talks to Diana Evans about her novel Ordinary People.

Diana Evans talks to Bookclub listeners about her novel Ordinary People and answers their questions.

Diana Evans answers listener questions about Ordinary People, her page-turner of a novel about contemporary black middle class experience in the London of today. 
An absorbing tale of two couples and their family, the novel documents their struggles with identity, parenthood, sex, grief, ageing, friendship and love.


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