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Caledonian creepiness, as Scottish writer Elspeth Davie spins a strange yarn of ovulatory revenge. Read by Edith Macarthur.
Five quietly unsettling short stories by Elspeth Davie, described as one of Scotland's finest and most underrated writers.
Mrs MacLean is taken aback by her new lodger's violent reaction of one of her favourite foodstuffs.
"Egg is poison to me. Deadly poison!"
Read by Edith Macarthur.
Producer: David Jackson Young
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2002.
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