Issy is rushed to hospital with meningitis leaving her parents to make an exceedingly difficult decision. Read by Emma Fielding. Show more

Jacob creates his own version of the Book of the Dead while Mum Claire is refusing to leave Issy’s bunk. Read by Emma Fielding. Show more

Jacob learns a shocking Father Christmas fact. Then the family arrives home to find Claire has gone. Concluded by Emma Fielding. Show more

It's Issy's funeral and the house is full of sadness but Jacob hatches a plan to make everything better. Read by Emma Fielding. Show more

Unable to carry on after her daughter’s death, Claire climbs into Issy's bottom bunk and stays there. Read by Emma Fielding. Show more

Zippy experiences a non-Mormon party and Al is in trouble for taking cash from his mother's bedroom. Read by Emma Fielding. Show more

Claire talks about her dream, Al learns about the three Nephites and Jacob is awaiting someone special. Read by Emma Fielding. Show more

Claire blames her lack of faith for Issy's death, Jacob tells his secret and Al’s saved by three old men. Read by Emma Fielding. Show more

By Carys Bray. Pearl makes a throwaway comment that leads Edna to reflect on a past holiday and the essential unknowability of other people. Read by Susan Jameson. Show more

Actor Don Johnson on the art of the comeback, novelist and former Mormon Carys Bray, new Pablo Neruda poems discovered, and why established authors are choosing to self-publish. Show more

Kirsty Lang on The Meddler starring Susan Sarandon. Plus Derby Museums buys Joseph Wright landscapes, Painters' Paintings at the National Gallery and Henry V at Regent's Park. Show more