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Radio 4,12 Apr 2020,28 mins

Evie Wyld, Louise Doughty on Ghostly Narrators, Polly Samson and Leonard Cohen's Hydra

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Mariella Frostrup talks to Evie Wyld about The Bass Rock, her new novel about a Scottish island and three different generations of women constrained by insular attitudes. Louise Doughty investigates ghostly narrators in fiction, a haunting device used in her latest Platform Seven. And a very different island is discussed with Polly Samson, whose new book re-imagines Leonard Cohen's time on Hydra and his relationship with Australian author Charmian Clift.

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