Be Near Me: A Novel from Scotland

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Scottish author Andrew O'Hagan's novel Be Near Me is about the life and losses of a Scottish-born, Oxford-educated Catholic priest. Be Near Me was Booker-longlisted and has just been published in the US for the first time.

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