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A brand new original fiction serial by the best-selling author Kit de Waal about the changing face of modern Ireland, as told through multiple generations of one family.

Author
Kit de Waal, born to an Irish mother and Caribbean father, was brought up among the Irish community of Birmingham in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Her debut novel My Name Is Leon was an international bestseller, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award for 2017. In 2022 it was adapted as a ´óÏó´«Ã½ Two film. Her second novel The Trick to Time was longlisted for the Women's Prize and her young adult novel Becoming Dinah was shortlisted for the Carnegie CLIP Award 2020. Her memoir Without Warning and Only Sometimes was published in August 2022. She is a patron of Prisoners Abroad, the Bridport Prize and Writing West Midlands, ambassador of Well-being in the Arts and a trustee of The Reading Agency. Kit is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor and Jean Humphreys Writer in Residence at Leicester University.

Reader: Derbhle Crotty
Writer: Kit de Waal
Producer: Michael Shannon

A ´óÏó´«Ã½ Audio Northern Ireland production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4.