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012019011420190115 (R4)Sally Bayley recalls how a strange home life made her bond with characters from books, abridged in five parts by Katrin Williams:

We are introduced to the household in a village in Sussex, mother, grandmother and some brothers. One day baby David goes missing and mummy retires to her bedroom for 'two hundred sleeps'. At this point the author turns to Miss Marple to make sense of things..

Reader Lydia Leonard

Producer Duncan Minshull

022019011520190116 (R4)Sally Bayley recalls how a strange home life made her bond with characters from books:

The appearance one night of an aunt called Di who will come to live with them in Sussex and is the aunt 'who spoke gobbledygook'. Oh dear! Time therefore to dip into the pages of Jane Eyre.

Reader Lydia Leonard

Producer Duncan Minshull

032019011620190117 (R4)Sally Bayley recalls how a strange home life made her bond with characters from books:

One day, the man called Laurie returned, to take Mum and the family out to dinner. Laurie once did something that was similar to a scene in JANE EYRE. And this is all rather worrying..

Reader Lydia Leonard

Producer Duncan Minshull

042019011720190118 (R4)Sally Bayley recalls how a strange home life made her bond with characters from books:

Auntie Di and her ways are hard to take , so the author visits the local doctor. All doctors have 'expert opinions', according to Agatha Christie. The doctor puts Sally in touch with Audrey, who will help to shape her future life..

Reader Lydia Leonard

Producer Duncan Minshull

05 LAST2019011820190119 (R4)Sally Bayley recalls how a strange home life made her bond with characters from books:

After a visit to the doctor and questions from Audrey, who means well, there is time to be spent at Colwood. Which requires all the consolatory powers that Jane Eyre can muster. But destiny does favour Sally..

Reader Lydia Leonard

Producer Duncan Minshull