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Radio 4,3 mins
Locked up for being different - the plight of women in 1930s Britain and Ireland
BookclubAvailable for over a year
Maggie O'Farrell describes the heartbreaking research that went into The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, and the surprising number of readers she has met whose lives are still touched by an earlier generation's harmful approach to women's mental health.
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