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Short Works: Dawn by Emma Hooper

Dawn by Emma Hooper

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A young Canadian girl discovers something incredible in a Dorset quarry.

Jenny’s family have recently moved from their home in Canada to a village in Dorset to take over the running of her Grandpa’s quarry - ‘aka abandoned everything for a few English rocks’. Homesick and lonely, she explores quarry caves when she’s meant to be waiting at school for her brother to finish football practice. One day she finds something incredible...
 
Emma Hooper is an author, musician and academic. Her debut novel, ‘Etta and Otto and Russell and James’, was published in 23 territories and 18 languages and her second book, ‘Our Homesick Songs’, was long listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. ‘We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky’ is her third novel and has been long listed for The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.
 
Her viola-accordion-saw-and-loop-pedal solo act ‘Waitress For The Bees’ has earned her a Finnish Cultural knighthood and her quartet ‘Red Carousel’ have performed with Peter Gabriel, The Heavy, Newton Faulkner and many others.
 
Although Emma lives in the UK, she visits home in Alberta to cross-country ski as often as she can.
  
Written and read by Emma Hooper
Music by Waitress For the Bees 
Produced by Alison Crawford

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