Things just swirling around my head.

Am I really the product of this?

Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests.

Little did I know what more was to come.

I'm Jenny Clemen and in the new series of The Gift,

we'll hear more stories emerging out of the ever-expanding global DNA database.

They did know that I was different.

You had kids together.

Yeah.

Then you met.

Then we met.

The Gift.

Listen on BBC Sounds.

This is the BBC.

Hello, if you're a fan of the late Nora Ephron, your luck is in, because so is at least one of my guests.

With me to introduce their good read are the author and screenwriter John Niven, whose novels include perhaps most famously Kill Your Friends, filmed with Nicholas Holton, James Corden, John, having written a screenplay.

John's also a prolific no-holds-barred tweeter.

With him, the journalist and broadcaster Sally Hughes, among much else beauty editor of The Guardian,

frequent guest on Woman's Hour, and author of Pretty Honest, for Straight Talking Beauty Companion.

Sally, your choice of a good read, please.

Well, I chose this book because first of all, I was being kind, because it's a very short book.

You can read it very, very quickly, but that's also partly why I love it.

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