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A Road Made of Books

A.L. Kennedy on the places where her writing has taken her 鈥 from performing in Boris Pasternak鈥檚 kitchen, to sailing the Atlantic in the company of Moby Dick. Read by the author.

鈥淢y road made of books has taken me through passages of remarkable good fortune.鈥

A.L. Kennedy on the journeys that await readers when they open the covers of a book - as well as the authors who write them. Today the author remembers some of the travels that have enhanced her writing life 鈥 from performing in Boris Pasternak鈥檚 kitchen to sailing the Atlantic in the company of Moby Dick.

Written and read by A.L. Kennedy
Produced by Eilidh McCreadie and Gaynor Macfarlane

A.L. Kennedy was born in Dundee and now stays in North Essex. She is an award-winning writer of novels, short stories, non-fiction and books for children. She also writes for the stage, screen, TV and radio, including documentaries, monologues, dramas and essays. She performs occasionally in one person shows and as a stand-up comic.

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