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Short Works: Take Me Home by Louise Kennedy

Take Me Home by Louise Kennedy

BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, Take Me Home by Louise Kennedy

A woman returns to Belfast to care for her dying grandmother.

When her grandmother falls ill, a woman is forced to reconnect with her estranged mother who abandoned her. Read by Cathy White.

When her beloved grandmother falls ill, a woman is forced to reconnect with her estranged mother who abandoned her as a child.

An original short work for BBC Radio 4 by author Louise Kennedy.

Read by Cathy White.

Louise Kennedy grew up in Holywood, Northern Ireland. Her short stories have been published in journals including The Stinging Fly, The Tangerine, The Lonely Crowd and Banshee. Her work has won the Ambit Short Fiction (2015), Wasifiri New Writing (2015), John O’Connor (2016) and Listowel Los-Gatos (2016) prizes and was short-listed for  the 2019 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award. 

She is a PhD candidate at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queens University Belfast. She lives in Sligo with her husband and two teenage children. 

Producer:  Michael Shannon

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2020.

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