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Extraordinary personal stories from around the world. Today, Jesmyn Ward, the American woman who turned her terrifying experience of Hurricane Katrina into an award-winning novel. Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward is published by Bloomsbury. Also, we go on the beat with one of Afghanistan's new breed of women police officers. And a British journalist describes the madness he experienced when a routine hospital operation went wrong.
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