Book at Bedtime - Christine Falls

The current Radio 4 Book at Bedtime is Christine Falls by Benjamin Black.

Monday 26 - Friday 8 March 2007

Christine Falls

By John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black; abridged by Doreen Estall; read by Jim Norton.

When Quirke, a Dublin pathologist, discovers his brother-in-law has tampered with the file of a young woman who has been brought to the morgue (Christine Falls), he decides to delve further into the woman's life, but the investigation he decides to lead into the way she lived - and the reason she died - disturbs a dark secret that has been festering at the core of 1950s Dublin high Catholic society, a secret ready to destabilize the very heart and soul of Quirke's own family.

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