The six children had the best two days of their lives and I want that on the record, because none of this was ever about them and I would have burnt the whole plan rather than have one of them go without.
Sunday. Solange asked me to go for a walk.
We went down Fentiman Row and up the lane by the old creamery, which takes about twenty-five minutes.
She did not apologise. I want to be honest about that.
What she did was tell me about 2016 to 2018. All of it, in order, for twenty-five minutes, and I had never heard any of it.
The debt was one hundred and ninety thousand and Fintan had not told her about most of it. The bank wrote to her nine days after the funeral. She had to have that conversation with Dermot in the September and it took her four months to be able to say the word “sell.”
