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Hello, welcome to Open Book. I'm Satnam Sangera.

September always means a new term, so what better time to reflect upon the state of the campus novel. We will be talking to two fine writers, Kate Weinberg

and Brandon Taylor, who have dragged the genre into the 21st century in very different ways.

Universities and writers need libraries, of course, and we have bestseller Matt Haig

telling us about his favourite libraries in fiction. But we begin with writer Donald Ryan, twice long listed for the Booker Prize,

for his novels, The Spinning Heart, and From a Low and Quiet Sea.

Now he is the author of Strange Flowers.

Set in 1973, it tells the story of a family devastated by the sudden disappearance of her beloved daughter.

Her return is just the beginning.

Kate was afraid at first that it was an apparition, not Maul in the flesh but her ghost.

Like Thomas doubting the truth of the risen Christ, she took Miles' hands again and looked

at them, turning them over as though to inspect her stigmata, the marks of her suffering,

and finding none she placed the precious living hands in her husband's hands, and daughter

and father held each other's hands, and none of them spoke a word in those first moments.

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