An old-fashioned radio serial for modern ears. Lucy Halloran, 58, divorced, is working in a Newcastle bookshop when a mysterious Thursday regular offers to help her finish the novel she's spent thirty years not writing. His only condition: no questions about who he really is. Lucy has read every one of his books. She knows the charming man is never what he seems.
At Merewether Baths, the dawn swimmers know the water and they knew Dee. As Lucy and Henry retrace the details of her final morning, one small discovery raises a troubling question: did Dee enter the sea without the one thing she never left behind?
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3 Sept 2026
S2 Four Mornings a Week
A woman who never missed a dawn swim is found dead near Merewether Baths. The verdict says accident, but her sister knows something about that final morning doesn’t fit. As Lucy and Henry begin to listen, a broken routine, a cryptic message and a stranger in tears suggest the sea may not be holding the whole story.
Between the Lines written and read by Cheralyn Darcey can be found live each week on The Super Radio Network M,W&F 10:30pm AEST 'The Nightline with Cheralyn Darcey'
22 Aug 2026
Episode 12: "Ex Libris"
Before dawn, Lucy runs. Slippers, no plan, nothing prepared — just a ferry to catch and a truth she's not willing to let leave the harbour without her. The season finale brings Lucy face to face with everything she's uncovered, and asks her to decide, once and for all, what she's willing to risk for a man who's spent his whole life disappearing. But Newcastle isn't quite done with her yet. Some endings, it turns out, come with one more chapter attached.
Between the Lines. Series finale.
22 Aug 2026
Episode 11: "The Last Chapter"
Alone at her kitchen table at three in the morning, Lucy finally gets the truth she's been chasing for weeks — just not from Henry's mouth, and not in the way she expected it. What she reads changes everything she thought she understood about the man she loves, the woman he lost, and the secret that's kept him hidden from the world for eleven years. But truth, once it arrives, has a way of bringing company. And by the time the shop bell rings again that evening, Lucy will learn that some secrets don't stay buried just because you've decided to forgive them.
22 Aug 2026
Episode 10: "The Siege"
Overnight, Lucy's quiet life on Darby Street becomes front-page news and the man at the centre of it has vanished. As Newcastle turns into a circus of cameras and rumour, Lucy finds out just how long the people closest to her have been keeping secrets of their own. And when a courier arrives at the shop with no return address, she's handed a choice she never asked for: read the truth, or burn it.
15 Aug 2026
Episode 9: 'On Her Own Terms'
In Episode 9 of Between the Lines, Lucy struggles to accept a success that no longer feels entirely her own. A quiet conversation with Ada helps her see Henry’s secrecy in a different light, and she finally decides to approach him without questions, evidence or accusations. But just as Lucy prepares to make peace, a shocking development changes everything.
15 Aug 2026
Episode 8: 'The Rule'
In Episode 8 of Between the Lines, Lucy breaks the one rule she promised to keep, forcing a chilling confrontation with Henry over the secrets he’s guarded for years. Hurt and furious, she turns to the unfinished dream she’s carried for more than three decades. But when success finally arrives, Lucy discovers there may be another story unfolding quietly behind the scenes.
13 Aug 2026
Episode 7: Nine Fourteen
There are two kinds of women: the kind who reads a manuscript and thinks fiction, and the kind who ends up at a library microfiche machine at midnight, unable to let it go. Lucy is learning, Thursday by Thursday, how misdirection works from the master of it, all while quietly building a case against the very man teaching her. But someone's been watching the bookshop longer than she realised, and he's waiting for her at the bus stop with a name the inquest never traced.
13 Aug 2026
Episode 6: The Returned
Lucy's ex-husband is asleep in her spare room, freshly dumped and freshly hopeful, and she's about to discover exactly how much she's changed since he left. But the real reckoning happens somewhere else entirely: among the shelves of a Darby Street bookshop, where a name gets spoken out loud for the first time, and a door that's been closed for weeks finally, quietly, opens. Some chapters end with a kiss. This one ends with a folder Lucy still can't bring herself to open, sitting in a drawer, waiting.
13 Aug 2026
Episode 5: Marianne
Lucy breaks the one rule she was ever given. And this time, for the first time, he answers. A name. A yacht. A storm off an island she'd never heard of until it became the centre of everything. It's the most Henry has ever given her, and she falls the rest of the way in the telling of it. But love, apparently, waits for no one, not even to catch its breath, because by the time Lucy makes it home, her past is already sitting on the verandah with a bunch of servo flowers and a terrible mistake to confess.
13 Aug 2026
Episode 4: The Lie I Told
Lucy discovers she's a better liar than she ever suspected, and doesn't much like what that says about her. A journalist leaves a folder she doesn't want. A storm leaves her stranded under one umbrella with the man she's not supposed to want either. And a secondhand book turns up an inscription that changes the shape of everything she thought she knew. Some secrets keep themselves. This one just found a new home in a drawer under the till.
28 Jul 2026
Episode 3: Thursdays
Lucy Halloran has been keeping a secret,
and for once it isn't the sad kind.
Three Thursdays now.
A locked bookshop on Darby Street, the blinds down, and a man teaching her to stop apologising for her best sentences.
She hasn't told Ada. She hasn't told her daughter. She has barely let herself believe it.
But Newcastle is a small town dressed up as a city, and someone has just walked through the door with a question Lucy isn't ready to answer.Some rules were made to keep the good part just a little longer.
Lucy is about to learn what it costs to break one.
A Romantic Crime Mystery Serial.
22 Jul 2026
Episode 2: No Questions
Lucy has read the page forty times. She has counted.
A stranger dropped a single typewritten sheet in her Darby Street bookshop, and it's unmistakably the voice of the world's most famous invisible author. A voice from a book that doesn't exist.
When she returns it, she gets more than she bargained for. He reads her secret, unfinished novel. He offers to help her finish it. And he sets one condition, delivered like the price it truly is: no questions about who he really is.
She says yes before she's finished thinking it through.
That night, alone with her phone and a pot of tea, Lucy goes looking for answers anyway.
Some things, it turns out, you can't unread.
A romantic crime mystery serial, told entirely in one woman's voice.
11 Jul 2026
Episode 1: The Man Who Buys the Same Book Twice
Lucy Halloran is 58, divorced, broke, and working in a Darby Street bookshop with an unfinished novel in a shoebox.
Then the shop's most peculiar regular buys a book he already owns, and drops something on his way out that shouldn't exist.
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