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Hello, on today's programme, we examine the highs and lows of being a writer's wife.

Lindsay Davis explains why she wrote a book for people who don't normally read, and your heroines

revealed. If anybody does marry you, it'll be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle.

We hear from you about your favourite heroines later in the programme, but first a unique author

who from his first prize-winning foray into fiction, the truth about these strange times, seemed to hit

the page fully formed. Adam Foulds featured among Grant's 2013 Best of Young British Novelists,

has appeared on numerous literary shortlists, including 2009's Man Booker for the Quickening

Mays, a novel based on the experiences of poets John Clare and Alfred Tennyson.

His poetry has also gained recognition, with the broken word, a bloody account of the Mao

Uprisings in Kenya, winning him the 2008 Costa Poetry Award.

In The Wolf's Mouth is his third novel.

In it, he refocuses on conflict, weaving a layered and visceral tale

around the experiences of two soldiers during the North African and Sicilian campaigns in World

War II, while in the shadows lurks a menacing mafioso exiled by the fascists, but riding the

coattails of the naive allies to reclaim his home turf.

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