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  1. Cover
  2. By the same author
  3. SUZY SUZY
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Glossary of Dialect Terms
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  89. About William Wall
  90. An Invitation from the Publisher

It was true too. Her parents lived in a cottage with an acre and they raised all their own food, vegetarian of course, although Holly eats meat when she’s not at home, and totally organic. Everybody called them The Hippies. I used to let Holly copy my homework and I’d show her where to put in mistakes. Once she found a robin with a broken leg, she picked him up with both hands and carried him home. I would not touch a bird, ew, I swear, the idea of touching something with feathers. I would die before I would do that. Holly tells jokes. I don’t know where she hears them. Maybe she makes them up. What do Waterford people call Viagra? Willy Power. I don’t get it. She tells me that William Power is a common name in Waterford. I still don’t get it. I googled it and William is not actually all that common. Power is a Waterford name all right.

The cottage looks down on Inch beach and I know my dad or Kelleher the auctioneer would give their right hands to have the selling of it. It is a desirable residence in spades – not the house, the first thing a developer would do would be to level it. They’d level it with Holly and The Hippies inside if they thought they could get away with it. They tend to see the law as an Unfortunate Accident that prevents wealth creation. Like, ever hear a developer defending a forest or a green field?

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Go on so, make a fresh cup, my mam said. And before the tea was even drawn Dad texted from the car to say that it was two point five mill and that he wouldn’t have been able to go there. My mam read me the text, which was like an achievement because he never uses punctuation. 2.5 mill some English celeb I couldn’t go that high he blew me off so much for buy Irish you would think Kelleher would have some f***ing loyalty so much for support your own. Like in texts my Dad won’t say fucking. Like it’ll be all ***. But he’ll say it in words all right.

Your dad is very upset about Ballyshane, she said.

I said I knew.

I hate when he gets like this.

I knew that too.

I’m worried about what he’ll do.