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8: 'He should have known'

Meg Mason's achingly funny and heartbreakingly tender novel on modern love and life. Today: Martha finally confronts her husband about what has always been wrong with her...

Hailed as 'Patrick Melrose meets Fleabag', Meg Mason's achingly and heartbreakingly tender novel, read by Hattie Morahan.

Martha Friel is clever and beautiful, a brilliant writer who has been loved every day of her adult life by one man, her husband Patrick. So why is Martha - on the edge of 40 - friendless, practically jobless and broken? And why did Patrick decide to leave?

Now Martha, with the help of her devoted, wise-cracking sister and dysfunctional, bohemian parents, has one last chance to find out whether she can write a better ending for herself.

Today: Martha finally confronts her husband over what has always been wrong with her...

Reader: Hattie Morahan
Writer: Meg Mason began her career in journalism, working on The Times, the New Yorker and Vogue. This is her second novel.
Abridger: Antonia Hodgson
Producer: Justine Willett

14 minutes

Last on

Wed 1 Dec 2021 22:45

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  • Wed 1 Dec 2021 12:04
  • Wed 1 Dec 2021 22:45