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Hello, on today's program I'll be marking Armistice Day with Sebastian Folks and Helen Dunmore

as we discuss the fictional response to the First World War, and dedicated to the inscriptions

people write in books. From one naughty young lady to another, hoping that your mother doesn't

know you're right and that you wear only the best Willie Bloomers. I'll never read Flober's

sentimental education in the same way again. More of the gems found in second-hand books later in the programme.

But first, the return of a writer who in 2009 assured us she would not write a novel again,

a declaration which sent the many fans of this British literary institution into abject despair.

Ever since her auspicious debut, a summer birdcage in the 1960s,

chronicling the trials and tribulations of her generation of young women, has been Dame Margaret

Drabble's natural habitat. In her latest novel, she returns to that terrain, but with the benefit

of a long life, well-lived and rich with experience.

The pure gold baby spans the decades since the swinging 60s,

with the tale of Jess and her daughter Anna, the eponymous child of the title

around whose disability Margaret Traces changing attitudes to caring and community.

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