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Jane Shilling explores belonging from the perspective of family and place. Meditation on life at mid-point, read by Samantha Bond.

The Stranger in the Mirror is Jane Shilling's personal meditation about what it's like to be at the mid point, looking both backwards and forwards. Today she explores belonging from the perspective of family and place.

Jane Shilling is a journalist, she 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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