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10: 'Most of the time it was amazing'

Hattie Morahan reads the final part of Meg Mason's achingly funny and yet heartbreakingly moving novel. Today: the words that needed to be said are finally spoken...

Hattie Morahan reads the final part of Meg Mason's achingly funny and heartbreakingly moving novel.

Martha Friel is clever and beautiful, a brilliant writer who has been loved every day of her adult life by one man, her husband Patrick. So why is Martha now friendless, practically jobless and broken? And why did Patrick decide to leave?

Now Martha, with the help of her devoted, wise-cracking sister and dysfunctional, bohemian parents, has one last chance to find out whether she can write a better ending for herself.

Today: Martha and Patrick finally speak the words that needed to be spoken, in a self-storage centre in Wembley...

Reader: Hattie Morahan
Writer: Meg Mason began her career in journalism, working on The Times, the New Yorker and Vogue. This is her second novel.
Abridger: Antonia Hodgson
Producer: Justine Willett

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Fri 3 Dec 2021 22:45

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