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The episode features an interview with Mary Costello discussing her new novel A Beautiful Loan and the complexities of adult life.

Send us Fan Mail This morning we talk to Mary Costello about her new novel A Beautiful Loan. My name is Anna, and for some time now, I have been trying to account for certain events in my life – my adult life, that is – which, from this vantage point of forty-five years, I often find baffling … In 1985 Dublin, nineteen-year-old Anna Hughes is in thrall to Peter Gallagher, an older, worldly man. Anna is introverted and naïve, and Peter’s experience, wide circle of friends and thirst fo...

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