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Tag: Love
Ep.157 Desire Lines – Felicity Volk
Are you still a liar
Set against the uneasy relationship society has with its own truth-telling in history, war and politics, Desire Lines is an epic story of love and the lies we tell ourselves to survive – and a moving reminder that even truths which seem lost forever can find their way home.
Ep. 155 The Love That Remains – Susan Francis
An extraordinary memoir about secrets, life’s shocking twists and unconditional love.
How could I write about the importance of truth and not tell the whole truth myself?
Ep: 140 Going Under – Sonia Henry
A darkly funny and sexy novel that blows the lid off the medical profession and life inside a hospital by a young doctor whose anonymous article about the pressures of trainee doctors went viral around the world.
Ep.132 Love and Other Battles – Tess Woods
Three generations of women. Three heartbreaking choices. One unforgettable story.
Ep: 97 Tania Chandler – Please Don’t Leave Me Here
Is Brigitte a loving wife and mother, or a cold-blooded killer?
Nobody knows why she was in the east of the city so early on the morning she was left for dead by a hit-and-run driver. It was the Friday before Christmas 1994 – the same day police discovered the body of a man beaten to death in her apartment
Ep:82 Heather Morris – The Tattooist of Auschwitz
The incredible story of the Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist and the woman he loved.
Lale Sokolov is well dressed, a charmer, a ladies man. He is also a Jew. On the first transport from Slovakia to Auschwitz in 1942, Late immediately stands out to his fellow prisoners. In the camp, he is looked up to, looked out for and put to work in the privileged position of Tatowierer – the tattooist – to mark his fellow prisoners, forever. One of them is a young woman, Gita, who steals his heart at first glance.
His life is given new purpose, Lale does his best through the struggle and suffering to use his position for good.
Ep: 36 Alice Nelson – The Last Sky
Set during the edgy handover period when Hong Kong was posed to return to China, it is partly a haunting and uneasy love story, partly a subtle explorations of cultural and political tensions.
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