This week on The Word Harriett Gilbert talks to author Andrew Sean Greer about his novel "The Story of a Marriage"; a tale of secrets, misunderstandings and unexpected love.

We pay a visit to one of the world's grandest bookshops in Maastricht, Holland that occupies the whole of an enormous 13th century church.

And two authors discuss how to research a novel set in a place you've never visited.

Books List

Title: The Story of a Marriage
Author: Andrew Sean Greer
Publisher: Faber and Faber
ISBN-10: 0571240984
ISBN-13: 978-0571240982

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Each week presenter Harriett Gilbert meets novelists, poets, playwrights, screenwriters, copywriters and book-sellers as she looks at the myriad world of writing.
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