Book of the Week - Stranger in the Mirror - Episode 5

The Stranger in the Mirror is Jane Shilling's memoir about middle age, and looks both backwards and forwards to new adventures. Today austere times lie ahead after Jane's working life as a freelance journalist receives a blow. Jane Shilling is a journalist who writes on books for the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and Daily Mail, and on television for the Evening Standard. This is her second book. She lives in Greenwich with her son. Read by Samantha Bond Abridged by Julian Wilkinson Produced by Elizabeth Allard.