4.2 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Emma Donoghue discusses her new novel Akin, plus a discussion of the best fiction spies.
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0:51.2 | Hello, spying, subterfuge and surveillance on open book and in the real world this week as we mark 100 years of GCHQ with a survey of fictional spooks. |
0:56.4 | We hear the details of Harper Lee's unpublished true crime novel. |
1:00.6 | But we begin with an investigation into the undercover world of the French resistance, |
1:05.8 | with a side order of intergenerational discord. |
1:09.3 | Akin is the latest novel from Emma Donahue, |
1:11.8 | the booker shortlisted author of Room, |
1:14.1 | which also garnered her an Academy Award nomination |
1:16.8 | for Best Adapted Screenplay. |
1:19.5 | Her latest begins in New York, |
1:21.9 | as widowed 79-year-old Noah Salvagio, |
1:24.8 | a recently retired chemistry professor, |
1:27.1 | makes preparations for a trip to retrace |
1:29.3 | his roots on the French Riviera. A last-minute call from social services results in an unlikely |
1:35.9 | travelling companion, his troubled great-nephew Michael, a damaged, phone-addicted 11-year-old, whose |
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