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Book at Bedtime - An Equal Stillness

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Tom Goodman-Hill reads Francesca Kay's story of a painter's lifelong struggle to balance her vocation with her life as a lover, wife, daughter and mother

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Book at Bedtime - An Equal Stillness - Episode 1

Tom Goodman-Hill reads the novel by Francesca Kay. Jennet Mallow, born in 1924 in a Yorkshire vicarage, begins to find her artistic vocation.

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Book at Bedtime - An Equal Stillness - Episode 10

Jennet gradually finds a way to move forward and leave the pain of the past behind. Under the over-arching skies of her native Yorkshire, she paints her finest work yet.

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Book at Bedtime - An Equal Stillness - Episode 2

David Heaton enters Jennet's life. Will a love affair with another painter foster Jennet's own talent?

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Book at Bedtime - An Equal Stillness - Episode 3

A shotgun marriage to David Heaton has not brought the happiness that Jennet sought. Moving from London to a Spanish village offers both young artists a fresh start.

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Book at Bedtime - An Equal Stillness - Episode 4

Jennet has blossomed in Spain, but her happiness is marred by David's depression and drinking. How can she serve the children, and her marriage, best?

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Book at Bedtime - An Equal Stillness - Episode 5

Returning to England, with little money and an unreliable husband, Jennet realises that their future lies in her hands.

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Book at Bedtime - An Equal Stillness - Episode 6

Jennet completes the frescos at Mount Street and takes her family to Cornwall on the proceeds.

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Book at Bedtime - An Equal Stillness - Episode 7

Tom Goodman-Hill reads the novel by Francesca Kay. Finally in a position to secure her future, Jennet buys a house to renovate by the banks of the Thames.

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Book at Bedtime - An Equal Stillness - Episode 8

Tom Goodman-Hill reads the novel by Francesca Kay. Betrayal on both sides has irrevocably damaged the fragile Heaton marriage. In a moment of rashness, Jennet dares all with David.

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Book at Bedtime - An Equal Stillness - Episode 9

Jennet discovers that she is carrying a child - but whose? It is time to start over, but nothing can prepare her for the way events will turn out and nothing will assuage her guilt.

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