7: The Boat

'I started to take my camera out, going for long walks in the city at dawn.'
After the death of her mum, Rab is starting again in New York - but she's always got an eye out for old friends.

Read by Maxine Peake
Written by Alex Hyde
Abridged by Siân Preece
Produced by Eilidh McCreadie

Alex Hyde is an Associate Professor at University College London. Violets, her first novel, a fictional reimagining of her father’s story, was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize, shortlisted for the Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize and was a Radio 4 Book at Bedtime. She lives with her family in South London.