Episode 2
Sally Bayley recalls how a strange home life made her bond with characters from books. In life though, there appears Auntie Di, a hard liner wreathed in cigarette smoke.
Sally Bayley recalls how a strange home life made her bond with characters from books:
The appearance one night of an aunt called Di who will come to live with them in Sussex and is the aunt 'who spoke gobbledygook'. Oh dear! Time therefore to dip into the pages of Jane Eyre.
Reader Lydia Leonard
Producer Duncan Minshull
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