The Shelter Of Neighbours (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
Her husband, Tim, is right now taking off his shoes and belt at the security check in the airport and will spend the next seven hours or so safely locked into a tube of steel crossing the Atlantic. The kids are at college (they are aged nineteen and twenty-one but still live at home, in the strange Irish way, and can justifiably be called ‘kids’; they certainly act the part). She has a day off – a rare treat, since the solicitor’s office in which she has been working since she got her law degree, just a few years ago, is literally run off its feet. They specialise in conveyancing, and people are buying property – houses and apartments – with frenzied enthusiasm, as if the skill of building was about to be lost forever, tomorrow or the day after. Not much chance of that, to judge by the cranes that stretch across the horizon like the arms of benevolent giants, reaching out to embrace the Irish nation, with a paternal, irresistible, if steely, hug. Today Ingrid could do anything.
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