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Gail Honeyman and Mavis Cheek

Gail Honeyman, Mavis Cheek and Harriett Gilbert discuss Charlotte Bronte, Catherine O'Flynn and Penelope Fitzgerald. From 2020.

Authors Gail Honeyman and Mavis Cheek join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Charlotte Bronte, Catherine O'Flynn and Penelope Fitzgerald.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Publisher: Penguin Classics

What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
Publisher: Profile Books

The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald:
Publisher: Fourth Estate

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2020.

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Wed 3 Dec 202500:00
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