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An original short story specially commissioned by BBC Radio 4 from the writer Lauren Mackenzie. Read by Seána Kerslake. The Author. Lauren Mackenzie was born in Sydney but now lives in Dublin with her family. After years working as a screenwriter, she returned to fiction in 2017, completing an MA in Creative Writing. In 2018 she was shortlisted for the Cuirt New Writing Prize and Hennessy New Irish Writing. She has had stories, flash and poetry published in The Moth, Banshee, The Irish Times, The Lonely Crowd and The Stinging Fly among others. In 2021 she won the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair. Her first novel 'The Couples' was published by John Murray in 2023. Writer: Lauren Mackenzie Reader: Seána Kerslake Producer: Michael Shannon A BBC Audio Northern Ireland Production for BBC Radio 4.
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