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Radio 4,27 Feb 2011,30 mins

Kim Edwards, Sybille Bedford, Sarah Dunant, Reading Clinic

Open Book

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Mariella Frostrup talks to the American author Kim Edwards, author of the the bestselling novel The Memory Keeper's Daughter, about her new book The Lake of Dreams. She also looks back at the life and work of writer Sybille Bedford with This Life creator Amy Jenkins and biographer Victoria Glendenning. Plus, novelist Sarah Dunant offers horizon-expanding reader advice to a teenage girl in the Open Book reading clinic.

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