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Malcom鈥檚 attempts to give up the drink have not been going well. But today is the day! And a doting grandmother is excited to show off the new baby to her neighbours.

A caravan-park on the Northern Irish coast is beset by a series of impossible thefts, forcing its disparate group of residents to come together to find their missing belongings. However, in this uncanny place where static caravans teeter on an eroding cliff-edge overlooking the ocean, each holidaymaker soon finds themselves similarly wavering between certainty and doubt; one world and the next; the past and the present; and even reality and fantasy.
Author
Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast. Her most recent novel 鈥楾he Fire Starters鈥 was awarded the EU Prize for Literature 2019 and the author was acclaimed as 鈥渙ne of the most exciting and original Northern Irish writers of her generation鈥 by the Sunday Times. She has also written 鈥
Wings鈥 for 大象传媒 Three, 鈥楿nRaveling鈥 for 大象传媒 Radio 3, several short stories for 大象传媒 Radio 4鈥檚 鈥楽hort Works鈥 series and was shortlisted for the 大象传媒 National Short Story Award 2020.

Read by Seamus O鈥橦ara and Carol Moore
Directed by Michael Shannon
Executive Editor Andy Martin

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26 minutes

Last on

Sat 31 Jul 2021 12:03

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  • Sat 31 Jul 2021 12:03