Victoria Purman’s The Radio Hour

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Victoria Purman is a bestselling author in Australia and the US. Her historical fiction includes A Woman’s Work, The Nurses’ War, The Women’s Pages, and The Land Girls.

Victoria’s new novel is The Radio Hour.

The year is 1956.

When Martha Berry started out at the national broadcaster nearly thirty years ago she couldn’t imagine where it would take her…

Not so far it turns out, as she shunts between jobs as secretary for men who wouldn’t know one end of their pencils from the other if they didn't occasionally stick it in their… ear.

Now Martha has been tasked with looking after the new wunderkind writer. He’s been commissioned to create a new hit series but all he’s got so far is a title.

With television on the horizon, Martha refuses to believe that the days of the radio serial might be over. But if no one steps up to write As The Sun Sets, well the title might become more than a little prophetic!

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