Peter Jones plays the book in both series of the BBC Radio 4 full-cast comedy drama which spawned a phenomenal hitchhiking legend. Join Arthur, Ford, Trillian, Zaphod and Marvin the Paranoid Android in twelve episodes of adventuring.
The third novel in Annie Murray's "Birmingham" series. While Genie's father is away fighting in World War II, her mother has a ruinous affair which leaves her pregnant; Genie's little brother leaves, never to return; while Genie herself meets a man who then disappears to war.