Lido Lover
By Michele Roberts. Stories of the joy of outdoor swimming. An English woman finds a kind of fulfilment on the Venetian Lido. Read by Joanna Tope.
by Michèle Roberts.
Three stories that explore the most evocative experience of summer - outdoor swimming.
An English woman finds a kind of fulfilment on the Venetian Lido.
Read by Joanna Tope.
MichΓ¨le Roberts is the author of twelve highly acclaimed novels, including The Looking Glass and Daughters of the House which won the WHSmith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her memoir Paper Houses was Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4's Book of the Week in June 2007. She has also published poetry and short stories, most recently collected in Mud- stories of sex and love (2010). She is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
Producer Gaynor Macfarlane.
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