Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Wher...

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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi joins us to explain how she captured the stories of her Italian grandmother; and Edmund Gordon admires how Ian McEwan’s new novel juxtaposes an individual life with memorable social and political events.

‘Dandelions’ by Thea Lenarduzzi

‘Lessons’ by Ian McEwan

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