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Short Works: In The Mountains by Amanthi Harris

In The Mountains by Amanthi Harris

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4 Extra Debut. Anya seeks to escape her unhappiness in a Spanish village, but she discovers she can’t escape from herself. Read by Aysha Kala.

Anya seeks to escape her unhappiness in London in a Spanish village. 

But she discovers that she cannot escape from herself.

Short story read by Aysha Kala.  

Writer and artist Amanthi Harris was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in Colombo, before moving to London.

Her novella Lantern Evening won the Gatehouse Press New Fictions Prize in 2016. Her novel, Beautiful Place, was published in 2019.

Producer: Jeremy Osborne

A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in August 2019.

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