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  • Narrator

    Fiona Shaw
  • Runtime

    7hr 54m

The Translation of the Bones: From the Winner of the Orange Award for New Writers 2009

Francesca Kay

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Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

A searingly powerful novel about passion and isolation, about the nature of belief, about love and motherhood and a search for truth.

In a church in Battersea, Mary-Margaret O'Reilly sees blood on her hands and believes she has witnessed a miracle. The consequences are both profound and devastating - not just for her but for others, too.

Father Diamond, the parish priest, struggling with his own faith. Stella, adrift in her marriage and aching for her ten-year old son, away at boarding school. Alice, counting the days until her soldier son comes home. And Mary-Margaret's mother, imprisoned in a tower block with nothing but her thoughts for company...

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Francesca Kay

Francesca Kay grew up in South-east Asia and India and has subsequently lived in Jamaica, the United States and Germany. Her first novel, An Equal Stillness, won the Orange Award for New Writers, and was shortlisted for Best First Book in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Europe and South Asia Region). She lives with her family in Oxford.

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