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43. Women Locked Up (In Prisons Real and Imagined)

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By complete coincidence Louise and Virginia read five books which all feature women who are either locked away or are prisoners of their minds. In spite of the serious-sounding themes of the books they spent most of this conversation in puddles of laughter, providing plenty of bloopers material. Books The Mad Women's Ball by Victoria Mas and translated by Frank Wynne, 2021, Doubleday History of the Rain by Niall Williams, 2014, Bloomsbury Mrs March by Virginia Feito, 2021, Harper Collins Tangerine by Christine Mangan, 2019, Little Brown The Night Village by Zoe Deleuil, 2021, Fremantle Press Television Annika Grantchester

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