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Hitting 50 with nothing to wear Jane selects a new wardrobe, and reflects on attitudes to mid-life. Read by Samantha Bond.

The Stranger in the Mirror is Jane Shilling's reflective and enquiring memoir on middle age. Today, Jane arrives at fifty, and finds she doesn't have a thing to wear. Putting a new wardrobe together, leads her to reflect on attitudes towards mid life in the public's imagination.

Jane Shilling writes on books for the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and Daily Mail, and on television for the Evening Standard. This is her second book. She lives in Greenwich with her son

Read by Samantha Bond.
Abridged by Julian Wilkinson.
Produced by Elizabeth Allard.

15 minutes

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