Afternoon Reading - Clothes in the Wardrobe
Jasmine Hyde reads Alice Thomas Ellis' darkly comic novel about love, marriage - and the possessiveness of mothers
Afternoon Reading - Clothes in the Wardrobe - Episode 1
Margaret, 19, is sleep-walking into marriage with a much older man whom she does not love.
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Afternoon Reading - Clothes in the Wardrobe - Episode 2
Margaret, 19, is planning to marry a much older man whom she does not love. Everyone around her can see this is disastrous; but Margaret herself has her reasons.
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Afternoon Reading - Clothes in the Wardrobe - Episode 3
As young Margaret's wedding draws closer, the prospective bridegroom becomes even more chilly and remote. Not that Margaret cares. What are they both up to?
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Afternoon Reading - Clothes in the Wardrobe - Episode 4
Margaret, 19, is persuaded by her mother to marry a much older man whom she does not love. What is she up to? The guilty secret of her summer in Egypt begins to emerge.
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Afternoon Reading - Clothes in the Wardrobe - Episode 5
The conventional suburban setting masks some dark secrets, which only now begin to emerge.
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