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Episode 12

Episode 12 of 15

2016: Willa and Tig conspire on a secret mission and there is further bad news about the house. Read by Laurel Lefkow.

2016: Willa and Tig conspire on a secret mission and there is further bad news about the house.

Barbara Kingsolver's novel interweaves the past and the present to explore the human capacity for resilience and compassion in times of great upheaval.

It is a portrait of life in precarious times - when characters discover that the past has failed to prepare them for the future.

Alternating between two centuries, Kingsolver examines the personal and social shocks that ensue when people’s assumptions about the world and their place in it are shaken to their foundations.

Abridged by Sian Preece.

Read by Laurel Lefkow.

Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2018.

14 minutes

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Wed 1 Feb 202302:00
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