8: The Fire Escape

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'The next day Clive called and said he’d bought everything you’d done.' The graduate show marks a watershed, with a buzz already building round some of the artists. 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.