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The Book on One
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'Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It' by Maile Meloy
Monday 30th January - Friday 3rd February
Listen Back: Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday
The American author Maile Meloy's short story collection features a series of characters caught between opposing desires.
In 'O Tannenbaum' (Monday to Wednesday), a married couple and their young daughter pick up a couple of hitchhikers in the snow, whose names turn out to be Bonnie and Clyde.
In 'Nine' (Thursday & Friday), a nine-year-old girl's divorced mother becomes involved with a man who has a ten-year-old son.
The reader is Sara Rose Wasson.
'Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It' is published by Canongate.
When: Monday - Friday, 11.10pm
Producer: Siobhán Mannion
