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The Radio 2 Book Club: Charity Norman

Author Charity Norman joins Simon in the Radio 2 Book Club to discuss fourth novel The New Woman.

Author Charity Norman joins Simon in the Radio 2 Book Club to discuss her fourth novel, The New Woman, which explores the sensitive subject of transgender.

Luke Livingstone is a respected solicitor and father. He has a loving wife and idyllic home in Oxfordshire, but Luke is struggling with an unbearable secret. All his life he has hidden his true identity, but it has become too much to bear - and Luke must become the person, the woman, that he knows himself to be

Charity Norman was born in Uganda and brought up in successive draughty vicarages in Yorkshire and Birmingham. After several years' travel she became a barrister, specialising in crime and family law in the northeast of England. In 2002, she took a break from law and began to write.

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  • Bonnie Tyler

    Holding Out For A Hero

    • The No.1 Movies Album (Various Artist.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Little Mix

    Black Magic

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.

  • ABBA

    Under Attack

    • The Singles (The First Ten Years).
    • Epic.
    • 1.

  • ZZ Top

    Gimme All Your Lovin'

    • Top Gear 2 - Various Artists.
    • Columbia.

  • A Flock of Seagulls

    I Ran (So Far Away)

    • Grand Theft Auto Vice City O.S.T. CD2.
    • Epic.

  • Andy Grammer

    Honey I'm Good

    • Magazines Or Novels.
    • S-Curve Records.
    • 001.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Albatross

  • Average White Band

    Let's Go Round Again

    • The Best Of.
    • Rhino.

  • Bon Jovi

    Saturday Night Gave Me Sunday Morning

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Timmy Thomas

    Why Can't We Live Together

    • Shades Of Soul (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Will Young

    Thank You

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Neil Diamond

    Skybird

    • Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
    • CBS.

  • Hurts

    Some Kind Of Heaven

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)

    • Alternative 60s - From Woodstock To Vietnam (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

Broadcast

  • Mon 27 Jul 2015 17:05
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2