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Episode 2

It is a year since Emma and Dexter first agreed to be 'just friends'. Dex is in India and Em has a grim waitressing job. Their letters fly back and forth. Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt.

Julian Rhind-Tutt reads from the bittersweet novel by David Nicholls.

It is July 1989, a year after Emma and Dexter first met - and agreed to be 'just friends'. Dex is off travelling in India and Em has slid into a grim waitressing job at a Mexican restaurant. But their letters continue to fly back and forth.

A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.

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