Booker-winning Roddy Doyle's latest book for children, A Greyhound of a Girl, is a moving tale of four generations of women from one family - including a ghost...

In this podcast Roddy reads from the book and, answering questions from readers, says that the difference between writing for children and adults is the angle that you take and some of the words that you can use: "The child is exactly like the adult, but hasn't been around so long".

Read Frank Cottrell Boyce's review of A Greyhound of a Girl