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Hello, from the callous destruction of lives, especially the lives of women and girls,

to how the most fragile babies are being saved by modern medicine. We're running the gamut with our books today.

And here to introduce them are

first the author Maggie G, whose 14 novels include the White Family, Virginia Woolf in Manhattan,

and most recently the Dark Comedy Blood. Maggie's also published a memoir, My Animal Life.

With her, Nazir Afzal, erstwhile, chief crown prosecutor for North West England.

Perhaps most widely known for prosecuting the so-called Rochdale Gruming Gang,

more generally, Nazir's a prominent force in the legal battles against violence to women.

And his memoir, The Prosecutor, comes out in a couple of weeks.

Nazir, would you start us off? Your choice of a good read, please.

It won't surprise anybody that I chose a book

about the violation of women.

Sue Lloyd Roberts wrote the book called The War on Women.

She couldn't finish it, unfortunately,

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