![]() ![]() Julius has never really had a relationship, and suddenly he thinks about a woman named Shelley Swift who has hired him to fix the window in her place above the fish shop. Figuring out how to afford to bury their mother is the least of their woes. ![]() Debts have been collecting, all the things Dot sheltered and hid from her children are knocking at their door, as threatening as monsters. Jeanie has never been healthy enough to face the challenges of life, learning too was a struggle, unlike her brother who has been the one venture into town taking on jobs here and there, she has spent her life feeling this crumbling home is their only sanctuary. Dot, whose secrets are now going to force Jeanie and Julius out into the world, has kept them tied to the only home they’ve ever known, for better or worse. It has been Dot who has faced all of life’s difficulties keeping her beloved children in a safe bubble. The family of three have lived in “rural isolation and poverty” in a cottage since the death of the twins father when they were still children. ![]() The incident that comes along and trips up twins Jeanie and Julius, aged 51, is the sudden, unexpected death of their mother Dot. Otherwise, one day we’re kids playing with the hose pipe, and the next we’re laid out on an old door in the parlour.” “ Sometimes, I reckon, we need something to come along and trip us up when we’re not expecting it. ![]()
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