Jeremy Gavron
Mariella Frostrup talks to two writers who have written memoirs of their mothers - Jeremy Gavron, whose mother died when he was very young, and Kate Grenville.
Mariella Frostrup talks to two writers who have written memoirs of their mothers: Jeremy Gavron, whose mother Sarah died when he was very young, investigates her life and death in his book A Woman on the Edge of Time. Novelist Kate Grenville has written an account of her mother, One Life, based on long conversations and documents that her mother left her. The two writers share their experience of documenting this most personal relationship.
Also on the programme, the shortlist of the The Sunday Times, Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award, novelist Eugene Vodolazkin discusses his book Laurus which won two of Russia's biggest book prizes and crime writer FH Batacan sends a literary postcard from Manila.
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Jeremy Gavron and Kate Grenville
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Young Writer of the Year shortlist
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FH Batacan
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Role Contributor Presenter Mariella Frostrup Interviewed Guest Jeremy Gavron Interviewed Guest Kate Grenville Interviewed Guest Eugene Vodolazkin Interviewed Guest FH Batacan Broadcasts
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