Book at Bedtime - Before The Earthquake - Episode 5

Francesco di Rienzo left the village in search of work before the earthquake hit. When he returns home, he finds that his younger brother Peppe has been killed in the disaster. When he bumps into Concetta on the road, Francesco confides that he knows who she was waiting for late that night, by the cemetery gates, before the earthquake, because he saw her with Peppe. When she tells him she is pregnant and that her family have hastily married her to Felice Totila, he is devastated for her. Sian Thomas reads this historical novel by Maria Allen. Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions for BBC Radio 4.