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  2. By the same author
  3. SUZY SUZY
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  90. An Invitation from the Publisher

But the first thing that happened was that my dad’s heart was broken. It must have been breaking for a long time, or holding together too hard. Just because it wasn’t what I was imagining, but some kind of like total car crash in which people died not me, doesn’t mean it wasn’t something. I tell myself: Never forget this. What happens every step of the way.

But I will forget it. As you do.

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So idk why property is such a big thing for my dad. Like who would endure heartbreak for a fucking desirable res on circa whatever acres? But you have to think it is a Georgian house with a fanlight over the door. And those windows you can walk through. Old Miss Corry told me: The Corrys have been here for two hundred years. She said it like she was standing up for herself, like I was the enemy. This was at the time when I did the project for Local History. The Corrys were the project so like I Get It. But then I’m not The British. The British were the only enemy Ireland ever had. How could I be the enemy ffs. Anyway We The Regans have been here for two hundred years too But We Never Had A Fanlight. My dad’s ambition was to put that fanlight in the family.

So the English guy moved in.

I expected there would be architects and renovations, new central heating, solar panels, works on the grounds. That’s what celebs do, right?

But the old guy just moved in and expelled the rats. He had a housekeeper that he brought with him from England. She bought food in the local supermarket a few times and then she discovered Aldi. People said she had a real Eastenders accent, but I don’t think there’s an Eastenders accent. And if there was nobody around here would know it. It’s just anything English that doesn’t sound like Shakespeare or the Queen. The Queen of England To Be Precise, as Holly says. I knew someone was in Ballyshane before anybody because I saw the smoke from the heating boiler. There was a lot of smoke. I said to Holly, They need to get that boiler serviced. We could see the smoke from the school bus.

It might blow up, she said.

I could see she would like an explosion.