Tessa Hadley

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Where can we escape to at times when we are cooped up, locked down, trapped indoors? Some people recall a real location - a favoured corner to which they return again and again, what the Swedes call a "wild strawberry place"; others find a refuge deep in the imagination. In these exceptional times, Radio 3 has specially commissioned five major writers to share their special place, and each night of the week, one of them offers to take us there and share it with us. Tessa Hadley evokes the unromantic basement flat in Bristol where she grew up, with memories of parents long gone and a young girl on the cusp of becoming herself. Producer: Beaty Rubens