The Behaviour of Moths - by Poppy Adams - NEW BBC Radio Audiobook - cheops

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Poppy Adams is a former documentary film-maker with a background in science. `The Behaviour of Moths` tells the story of two sisters, reunited in their ancestral family home after 47 years. Ginny, the reclusive moth expert, has always had an `instinct for insects`, but finds people more troubling. The arrival of her sister forces her to confront family secrets long buried.
From her lookout on the first floor, Ginny watches and waits for her adored younger sister to return to the crumbling mansion that was once their idyllic childhood home. Vivien has not stepped foot in the house since she left, forty seven years ago; Ginny, the reclusive lepidopterist, has rarely ventured outside it. The remembrance of their youth, of loss, and of old rivalries plays across Ginny's mind. Why is Vivi coming home? Ginny has been selling off the family furniture over the years, gradually shutting off each wing of the house and retreating into the precise routines and isolation that define her days. Only the attic remains untouched. There, collected over several generations, are walls lined with pinned and preserved Bordered Beauties and Rusty Waves, Feathered Footmen and Great Brocades, Purple Cloud, Angle Shades, the Gothic and the Stranger ...
Ten episodes of approximately 15 minutes each.
Published 01/05/2008.
'The Behaviour of Moths' was Radio 4's Book at Bedtime from May 12th-23rd 2008.
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