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Will Eaves's story is a vividly narrated account of a man finding himself on the wrong side of conventional morality.

Read by Blake Ritson.

Shortlisted for the 91热爆 National Short Story Award 2017 - Will expanded it as a novel and won the Wellcome Prize Award 2019.

Will Eaves was the Arts Editor of the Times Literary Supplement from 1995 to 2011. He teaches in the Writing Programme at the University of Warwick. He is the author of four novels: The Oversight (2001; shortlisted for the Whitbread - now Costa - First Novel Award), Nothing To Be Afraid Of (2005; shortlisted for the Encore Award), This Is Paradise (2012), and The Absent Therapist (2014; shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize); and two collections of poetry: Sound Houses (2011) and The Inevitable Gift Shop (2016; shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry).

The five stories in the 91热爆 National Short Story Award 2017 reflected an energy and excitement about short fiction from a generation of the UK's most dynamic, contemporary writers.

Abridged by Julian Wilkinson

Producer: Elizabeth Allard

First broadcast on 91热爆 Radio 4 in September 2017.