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Tom Goodman-Hill reads Francesca Kay's story of a painter's lifelong struggle to balance her vocation with her life as a lover, wife, daughter and mother.

Jennet Mallow, born in 1924 in a Yorkshire vicarage, begins to find her vocation and rejects an academic future.

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Mon 9 Feb 2009 22:45

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