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Mavis Cheek |
Monday 26 January 2004 |
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 It's 1940, and Coventry is burning in the Blitz. Two children are born, a boy and a girl. The boy will be encouraged to become great, a builder of bridges. The girl will learn to oblige. Can anything change their fates?
The novelist Mavis Cheek joins Jenni to talk about her new novel Patrick Parker's Progress, its flawed hero, and its theme of different expectations for men and women.
Patrick Parker's Progress by Mavis Cheek is published by Faber and Faber; ISBN: 0571214525
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