Gail Honeyman and Mavis Cheek
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Authors Gail Honeyman and Mavis Cheek join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Charlotte Bronte, Catherine O'Flynn and Penelope Fitzgerald.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Publisher: Penguin Classics
What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn Publisher: Profile Books
The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald: Publisher: Fourth Estate
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2020.
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| 0:00.0 | Things just swirling around my head. |
| 0:03.6 | Am I really the product of this? |
| 0:06.1 | Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests. |
| 0:11.0 | Little did I know what more was to come. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Jenny Clemen and in the new series of The Gift, |
| 0:17.5 | we'll hear more stories emerging out of the ever-expanding global DNA database. |
| 0:22.8 | They did know that I was different. |
| 0:25.7 | You had kids together. |
| 0:27.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:27.5 | Then you met. |
| 0:28.3 | Then we met. |
| 0:29.2 | The Gift. |
| 0:30.1 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:34.2 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. |
| 0:40.2 | Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts, |
| 0:43.6 | where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them. |
| 0:47.9 | We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here. |
| 0:52.9 | Hello, two weeks ago here, we were arguing over Jane Austen. |
| 0:56.3 | This week, Charlotte Bronte. |
| 0:58.5 | And with me to introduce their good read are two authors. |
| 1:01.6 | Gail Honeyman, whose debut novel, Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine, won the Costa |
| 1:06.8 | first novel award and was a New York Times number one bestseller, and Mavis Cheek, whose 15 novels include pause between acts, |
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