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Gambits: 4: The Rook

4: The Rook

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A new short story series by Eley Williams, set in an Essex village gripped by chess.

The next story in a new series set in what might seem like an everyday Essex village, but is anything but. Today: in 'The Rook', the chess tutor finds herself under suspicion...

The next in a dazzling new short story series set in Little Purlington - a seemingly ordinary English village, but which is anything but. Today, in 'The Rook',  a woman living secretly in the local folly finds herself under suspicion for the strange happenings in the village...

Reader: Jasmine Hyde
Writer: Eley Williams is the author of Attrib. and Other Stories, and a debut novel, The Liar's Dictionary.
Producer: Justine Willett

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Short story series by Eley Williams set in what might seem like an ordinary Essex village.

A new short story series for Radio 4 by Eley Williams set in what might seem like an ordinary Essex village, but is anything but.

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