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EPISODE · Nov 14, 2023 · 24 MIN

Author Caroline Bond joins Zoe in the Book Club to talk about her new novel

from The Radio 2 Book Club · host BBC Radio 2

Zoe welcomes Caroline Bond to the Book Club to discuss her new novel, The Day We Left. It's a powerful and moving story about identical twins, and Caroline draws on some of her own life experience for this book. They chat about her writing routine, inspirations, habits and how some characters can steal the show (or book) even when they're only in it for a short time. More on the book:Oli and Joe are identical twins. But they will never be the same. Lizzie Truman gives birth to her sons at thirty-one weeks. From the start, the differences between the twins are clear. Oli is bigger, stronger, healthier. Joe is small and much less robust, his future inexorably altered by the trauma of his premature delivery. As soon as the boys are well enough, Lizzie checks out of the maternity hospital and leaves her old life behind. By the time Oli and Joe are grown, Beth has a new name, a thriving business, and she has successfully raised her sons alone. But when the truth about their past emerges, the twins are forced to reassess everything they thought they knew about their mother, their upbringing and themselves.

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