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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Clare Margetson

The Hay relay story


Searching for a page-turner... Photograph: David Levene

The Guardian Hay Festival starts tomorrow and as a bit of a literary treat to run alongside our normal coverage we thought we would do a special Hay relay story.

Tomorrow, Beryl Bainbridge will write the opening chapter of our story. Then every day a new writer at the festival will put up another chapter.

We've got a fantastic line-up of writers taking part from the top deck of the Guardian's double-decker bus, parked in the middle of the festival site (if you're there, drop by and write a blog for us).

Joining Bainbridge on the blog will be Dave Eggers, Rose Tremain, Toby Litt, Thomas Keneally, A L Kennedy, Marina Lewycka, Blake Morrison, Deborah Moggach and Rupert Thomson.

At the end we will invite you to pull the final strands together and we will publish an alternative readers' ending. So get thinking ...

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