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Short Works: In Loco Parentis by Jan Carson

In Loco Parentis by Jan Carson

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A magical story about a doting auntie, face-painting and the importance of wet wipes.

On a day out with her two young nieces, DD will do anything to live up the title of "World's Best Aunt."

An original short story commissioned by BBC Radio 4 written by Jan Carson and read by Lisa Dwyer Hogg.

Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast. Her first novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears, was published in 2014 to critical acclaim, followed by a short-story collection, Children's Children (2016), and two flash fiction anthologies, Postcard Stories (2017) and Postcard Stories 2 (2020). Her second novel, The Fire Starters (2019), won the EU Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Dalkey Novel of the Year Award. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and on BBC Radio 3 and 4. She has won the Harper's Bazaar short-story competition and has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award and the Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Prize. Her third novel, The Raptures, was published in 2022. 

Writer: Jan Carson
Reader: Lisa Dwyer Hogg
Producer: Michael Shannon
Executive Editor: Andy Martin

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