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A young girl watches and learns from very different women fighting for the attention of a dying man. Read by Barbara Barnes.

Series of short stories from the new collection by Canadian author Alice Munro.

Set in a time when 'the streets were sprinkled with water to lay the dust in the summer' and 'people with leukemia went to bed, and after some weeks' or months' decline in a tragic atmosphere, they died.'

At the Crozier house a man lies dying. When his wife is at work, his stepmother lays on a form of distraction and the young girl brought in to help care for him begins to understand the complexities of adult life.

Read by Barbara Barnes.

Abridged by Sally Marmion.

15 minutes

Broadcasts

  • Wed 16 Dec 2009 15:30
  • Tue 15 Apr 2014 11:00
  • Tue 15 Apr 2014 21:00
  • Wed 16 Apr 2014 04:00