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, I'm Harriet Gilbert.

Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts,

where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them.

We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here.

Hello, today an unreliable butler, some homicidal American soldiers and women negotiating

relationships, including the one with their mother. With me to talk about their good read are

two authors. Nina Stibby, whose memoir Love Nina about working as a nanny in literary North London, was adapted by Nick Hornby for BBC television, and who's since written two novels, most recently Paradise Lodge, and with Nina Kit Deval, whose prize-winning debut My Name is Leon, will be followed later this month by her new novel, The Trick to Time.

Kit, would you start us off by telling us what you're recommending as a good read?

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