Companion piece
Dedication
for Nicola Barker
and for Sarah Wood
with love
Contents
Cover
By the same author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
You choose
’Ello ’ello ’ello…
Shifting Sand…
I threw the covers off…
knock knock…
All the years later…
Death in reverse…
The day after that phonecall…
Curlew
Goodbye v hello…
Story v lies…
Imagination v reality…
Surface v depth…
Real v fake…
Tragedy v farce…
Alive v dead…
Curfew
Hello hallo hullo…
There were three at the door at curfew…
When the girl knocks on a door…
The wolf’s at the door…
Back in the 1930s in Ireland…
It’s my father…
The story goes…
Acknowledgements and thanks