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A new ghost story from Helen Dunmore, set during and after the Second World War, about the power of the past to imprint itself on the present, and possess it. Read by Jasmine Hyde.

1/5 A new ghost story from Helen Dunmore set during and after the Second World War, about the power of the past to imprint itself on the present, and possess it. In 1952, Isabel Carey and her husband Philip, a doctor, are beginning their married life together in a small flat in a Yorkshire town.

Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths.
Reader: Jasmine Hyde
Producer: Beth O'Dea.

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Mon 13 Aug 2012 22:45

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