成人快手

When her beloved grandmother falls ill, a woman is forced to reconnect with her estranged mother who abandoned her as a child.

An original short work for 成人快手 Radio 4 by author Louise Kennedy.

Read by Cathy White.

Louise Kennedy grew up in Holywood, Northern Ireland. Her short stories have been published in journals including The Stinging Fly, The Tangerine, The Lonely Crowd and Banshee. Her work has won the Ambit Short Fiction (2015), Wasifiri New Writing (2015), John O鈥機onnor (2016) and Listowel Los-Gatos (2016) prizes and was short-listed for the 2019 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award.

She is a PhD candidate at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queens University Belfast. She lives in Sligo with her husband and two teenage children.

Producer: Michael Shannon

First broadcast on 成人快手 Radio 4 in April 2020.