Afternoon Reading - A Little More Love in the Afternoon - Chitting

Series in which leading romantic novelists write short stories inspired by the four word brief: Love in the Afternoon. "Chitting" by Elizabeth Buchan. Read by Melody Grove. Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. Twelve-year-old Edie is not happy. Her mum's going away for a week which means she has to go to her grandmother's house after school. Worse still, she'll have to eat her gran's cooking (stew, with boiled carrots! White fish with cabbage!). Needless to say, her grandmother's none too happy to have the company of a "sulky young miss". As the week passes, slowly, the pair learn to make the best of a bad situation. Elizabeth Buchan is the author of ten novels, including the bestselling and prize-winning "Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman", "That Certain Age" and "The Second Wife". She is a past winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year Award. She lives in London with her husband and children.