Little More Love In The Afternoon, A [Afternoon Reading]

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01Chitting2010071320111202 (R4)By Elizabeth Buchan.

Read by Melody Grove.

Twelve-year-old Edie is not happy. Her mum's going away for a week which means she has to go to her grandmother's house after school. Worse still, she'll have to eat her gran's cooking (stew, with boiled carrots! White fish with cabbage!). Needless to say, her grandmother's none too happy to have the company of a 'sulky young miss'. As the week passes, slowly, the pair learn to make the best of a bad situation.

By Elizabeth Buchan. A young girl discovers a different side to her stern grandmother.

02The Gift20100714Series in which leading romantic novelists write short stories inspired by the four word brief : Love in the Afternoon.

The Gift' by Santa Montefiore.

Read by Aoife McMahon.

Cara confronts long buried memories when she learns that an old flame is seriously ill in hospital. Flying out to be by his bedside in Buenos Aires, she makes a decision that will impact on both their futures.

Santa Montefiore was born in England in 1970 to an Anglo-Argentine mother, and read Spanish and Italian at Exeter University. Her novel 'The Italian Matchmaker' was nominated for this year's Romantic Novel of the Year Award. She lives in London with her husband, the historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, and their children, Lily and Sasha.

By Santa Montefiore. Cara attends the sick bed of the man who broke her teenaged heart.

03Thursdays2010071520111216 (R4)By Adele Parks. A single friend's advice causes married Ginny to make a startling decision