Francesca was recently invited by the BBC to read a classic book she’d never read before as part of the broadcaster’s ‘Love to Read’ season.
You can listen to her reading a book which she bought for the grand sum of 75p back in 1981 and which had been languishing on her bookshelves until asked by the BBC to discover a classic.
The book is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, and is a crime novel set in seventeenth century New England.
Listen to hear Francesca describing the story, and then reading from it.