Afternoon Reading - Casual Cruelty - The Villager

Series of short stories by the American author Shirley Jackson, who wrote in a style of 'creeping unease' from the 1940s until her death in 1965. Miss Clarence's visit to an apartment in Greenwich Village, New York, gives her an unexpected insight into other people's lives as well as her own. Read by Glenne Headly. A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4.