-One- Tess was brooding about Arthur and Brian when a large puppet bird caught her attention. Its head lunged on its unwieldy neck as it led the noisy, colourful parade along O’Connell Street. A judge rolled his eyes and absently waved a claw from his perch. His platform was dragged …
-Two- A few days later, it dawned a fine morning. Mungo got the children out to school and, whistling softly, he walked …
-Three – It was where she shopped anyway, so for a week she found an excuse to go to the shopping centre …
-Four- Tess managed to get out of bed. Pulling her tee-shirts down around her knees so that she crouched, she stumbled into …
- Five – The Special Branch cars sped along Fairview Road, their sirens wailing, the flashing beacons held on the roof by …
-Six- Ethna went down with chicken-pox, and Mungo stayed by her bedside and told her stories until she slept. They revived forgotten …
- Seven – The repeated loudspeaker exhortation to get her key cut now bore in on Tess’s reveries. She had been looking …
- Eight – Mungo walked past the queues waiting for buses by the walls of Trinity College. He liked to look at …
- Nine – Tess laughed as she cleared Arthur’s room. This had been happening for some days now. She looked out to …
- Ten – The weather remained broken and Mungo stayed indoors, haunted by the memory reflected in the rain as it trickled …
- Eleven – So, she had thrown the dice. He had not made a sound, but he was gone sure enough, and …
- Twelve – Mungo woke in grey light as Tess eased out of bed, stretching along the inside, and for an instant …
-Thirteen – Tess stayed overnight in Fairview to ease Arthur into his first day back at school. It distracted her from Mungo …
- Fourteen – They caressed each other, tentatively. They were falling apart instead of coming together, and there was nothing he could …
– Fifteen – It was after midday; that much she knew. As usual, she dressed before waking Larry. He looked at her …