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Book at Bedtime - The Post Office Girl - Episode 1

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Emma Gregory reads Stefan Zweig's reworking of the Cinderella story, set in post-First World War Austria. Christine, who once enjoyed a comfortable middle-class existence, finds herself reduced to poverty and forced to work as a low-ranking official in the local post office. Then one day, out of the blue, a telegram arrives from her rich American aunt.