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Radio 4,01 Mar 2024,14 mins

The Death of Wildflowers

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A woman in search of escape finds the primal rhythms of the natural world carry on with scant regard for human interference. Read by Nicola Ferguson. Helen McClory is a writer from Scotland who grew up between Edinburgh and the Isle of Skye. She has lived in Sydney, Australia and New York City. While in NYC, she worked as a dog walker and had the distinction of walking Lou Reed’s dog. Her books include the Saltire First Book Award-winning On the Edges of Vision, Flesh of the Peach, Mayhem & Death and The Goldblum Variations, a book of microfictions on Jeff Goldblum. Her interests include cooking and absurdism.

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