Click here to listen to my extensive interview with Judy Golding, daughter of William Golding.

Click on the links below to listen to Judy reading extracts from the book:

Reading 1 “Annoyingly for a family as superstitious as the Goldings, it was Friday the fourteenth. We had set sail the day before from Shoreham in Susssex, my parents and me and three friends…”

Reading 2 “My parents fell in love the first time they met. Both were engaged to others. It was the spring of 1939…”

Reading 3 “My mother sometimes tried to tell us stories but we were clear that this was not her job…”