showing off their new designs ahead of preseason testing which gets underway in barcelona tomorrow. this is the 13th car red bull have made since they entered the sport and are promising it will be unlucky for some, presumably the opposition. their sister team toro rosso and american team haas also revealed their new cars today. it isa it is a completely different car. hopefully we did build a very competitive car but also we will have to wait and see. i'm very confident that red bull can do about good job as they have shown in previous years. great britain's mark cavendish has won the greenjersey at the tour of abu dhabi, after finishing second on the final stage. stage four was a very wet affair, 27 laps around the yas marina grand prix circuit — it was always set up for a sprint finish. cavendish was beaten to the stage victory by the australia sprinter, caleb ewan, but he'd accumulated enough points to hang on the the green jersey. portugal's rui costa won the race overall. meanwhile world champion peter sagan won the second one—day classic of the season — the kuurne—brussels—kuurne race — but there was a good result for welsh rider luke rowe, in the black and blue of team sky, who finished in third place behind sagan. barry geraghty is out of the cheltenham festival due to injuries sustained in a fall at kempton yesterday for that he has ridden the winner at the last 15 festivals but he suffered broken ribs and a punctured lung. he was due to ride a horse trained by mcmanus. more sport on the bbc news channel throughout the evening. next, meet the author. sara baume has written a novel that deals with one of greatest contemporary problems, and perhaps her own experience too — the feeling of loss, maybe hopelessness, among young people who think that the opportunity they'd been brought up to believe in is an illusion. her book a line made by walking uses artwork as a structure. she was an art student herself in ireland and the story is told by the narrator frankie, who struggles with mental illness and sees little hope. it's a dark story but a compelling one. welcome. the theme of this story, this book, is a problem, i suppose, that's very, very familiar and troubling to many people at this moment. yeah. i think we live in an age when we grow up much slower. definitely my generation. it's funny, i think about this quite often now, my parents were married and having kids at my age. but it's totally acceptable that in your early 30s you're still... i'm still doing exactly what i did as a child only, i'd like to think, a slightly more sophisticated version. i've had some wonderful responses from parents. that's interesting. yeah. saying that they're going to give this book to their kids, presumably to help them! but their kids are in their 20s. how do you think it might help them? i suppose only to know that you're not the only person who feels like this. i think it's something i touch on in the book without passing any judgment. frankie, the narrator, feels very lost and disilussioned in a quite normal way because society is set up to make us feel our lives are incomplete and that this is a problem. to what extent is there an autobiographical element in the novel? to a great extent. it started actually with a nonfiction essay that i wrote when i was in college and it was structured around photographs of dead animals that i was taking, the idea that this character is stranded in the irish countryside, feels very lost and alone and feels as though everything is dying and nature becomes a kind of metaphor for that. she notices... it's like the way when you're pregnant, not that i've ever been pregnant, but you suddenly see people who are pregnant, keep seeing women who are pregnant. she keeps finding these dead animals because she notices them, i suppose. that builds the landscape around her. you were an art student and the visual arts are very important to you, you see the world in a sense through that artistic lens. it's interesting that you use artwork as a framework for the story. did thatjust come naturally? it did because i suppose it came out of the character's own mind. she's a former art student who is struggling to be an artist and she is concerned that now that she's finished formal education she won't learn anything any more and so she's testing herself on the artworks that she knows and at the same time trying to find meaning for her life in the only way she knows how, through examining artworks. it's a weird idea, really, isn't it, that learning stops when formal education ends because it should actually be the other way round and we should all know that and understand it and look forward to it. learning through life. yeah, that's most jobs, they result in an ending of that. i am very coloured by the fact that i graduated during the irish recession. i think it's still a problem in irish society, we are all very qualified but there are so few opportunities. you end up in dead—end jobs and learning ends. frankie has all kinds of problems and you touch on something that is on many people's mind, the prevalence of mental illness of various kinds, for which there is no immediate help, not much prospect of escape. i think we're more aware of that now than we were a generation ago, aren't we? i suppose we are. we grow up slower and when we are lost and disillusioned, there is now medication for that, which is the easiest way. i'm not the novelist in a polemic, and i don't stand injudgment over people that take medication. it's very deliberate, that, isn't it? frankie is very resistant. the book draws to a certain conclusion and it's left for the reader to decide whether she was right to be resistant or not, i suppose. what do you think of frankie? rewriting this book recently, it grew from this essay that was written when i was 25,26, which is the age frankie is in the novel, and then rewriting it recently there were so many things that frustrated me about her and so many things that i was tempted to cut because i don't think like that any more. then i realised that this is my 25—year—old self. frankie isn't the me now and wouldn't make the decisions i'd make now. and you have to let her be herself. yes, precisely. she became a character and not me at all. she needs to make her own mistakes without you intervening. yes, she needs for people to decide for themselves. what did it tell you about your 25—year—old self, rewriting this? i was very self absorbed and i think that is again a sign of the times. different perspectives. the book deals a lot with the death of the grandmother. at the time, i was interested in tackling that. i am still interested in that. we hear a lot about the death of a spouse and grief from that point of view. we don't hear so much about grandparents. since the book, in the last year, my father has died. that was a huge dislocation. they said that you do not really grow up until one of your parents dies and i think that's true. i made a huge shift in that time period myself. frankie seems very self absorbed and her world is very small and the ego, the ego, the ego. i think you need a certain amount of if you're going to pursue the arts. do you think that people are more alone how, they have to be more self— reliant if they're going to make their way? yes, i tend to write about lonely characters. that is what interests me and it is an endless subject. there are many different types of loneliness. the narrator in my first book was an older man. this is a book more about the loneliness of failure or the loneliness of having percieved that you have failed when really your life has hardly begun. would you like people when they put the book down to feel more optimistic about life, or do you suspect that they might feel a wee bit gloomy? i hope that the artworks will... lift them. well, lift them in a way or get people to look at smaller details more closely. is that where you find your solace? it is. nature is a big thing in both books. this is not a new wave, it is the mindfulness thing, slowing down and looking at things more closely. agnes martin, the painter, said that i have a very mind and i worked hard for it. i think we don't generally... in today's society there's a lot to be said about a quiet mind. frankie's mind certainly isn't. you don't think about that when you're writing. i know what i learned. let's hear it for a quiet mind. yes. sara baume, thank you very much. good evening. the fifth named storm of the season ewan, has been bringing wet and windy weather. this isa bringing wet and windy weather. this is a picture from glasgow earlier. the water was really running down the streets. not doom and gloom for all areas but there have been some brea ks all areas but there have been some breaks in the cloud. storm ewan was named by the irish major logical service about is whether west of the impacts are expected. for the rest of the uk it has just been a spell of the uk it has just been a spell of wind and rain. the heavy rain continues to work its way northwards. strong winds head north as well. elsewhere we see rain moving eastwards, followed by a lot of showers coming in on the breeze. some of the showers can be heavy with hail and thunder and maybe a bit of sleet and snow over higher ground for the time quite cold by dawn particularly in scotland and northern ireland. there will be a risk of frosty patches developing. further south, not quite so called it will be a blustery day on monday. blustery for all. a bit of sunshine but quite a lot of clout. the cloud delivering showers which could contain a delivering showers which could containa mix delivering showers which could contain a mix of hail, sleet and snow. it will feel quite chilly as well stop after a cold start in glasgow, only four, 5 degrees by the afternoon, similar about fast, cardiff and seven, 8 degrees in the london area. on monday night and into tuesday, the big picture is pretty unsettled. lots of ice bars in the chart. still quite breezy on tuesday and fairly unsettled. lobby areas of rain and showers but drier interludes as well. still feeling chilly in the breeze. single digits across the board. seven in glasgow and eight or nine in cardiff and london. still low—pressure in charge on shoes day. by wednesday, a reasonable start to the north and east of the uk. a bit cold with a touch of frost. we do look towards the south—west for the next weather system to urge its way in, bringing bigger cloud and rain. also slightly less cold air. creeping back to double figures implement and london. the southern half of the uk in two thirds it starts off wet but not much rain on thursday afternoon. this is bbc news. the headlines. you'll get a chance to hear it. after a rough week, jeremy corbyn admits labour hasn't done enough to rebuild trust with voters — but tells the party to remain united. i am carrying on as leader because i am determined that we will deliver social justice in this country. the home secretary backs up a warning that britain faces a ‘sustained and serious‘ level of terror threat from islamist extremists. lily allen suffers online abuse — after revealing she had post—traumatic stress disorder after a stillbirth. also in the next hour. get ready for the glitz and the glamour — hollywood counts down to the oscars.