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Virginia Woolf, a 1950s housewife and a New York editor, in one day each, across three eras.

A 15-year-old on an Essex estate dances alone until her mother brings a man home.

A German teenager and an older woman, and the trial twenty years later that explains her secret.

Pip, Magwitch on the marshes and Miss Havisham's rotting cake.

Dickens' favourite child, from a blacking factory to a writer's desk; Micawber and Uriah Heep.

A miner's son in Nottinghamshire, his mother and the women he cannot love; Lawrence's autobiography.

A 15-year-old with Asperger's investigates a dead poodle and finds out about his mother.

Tiffany Aching, a frying pan and the Nac Mac Feegle against the Queen of the Fairies.