Dermot and I bought it in June of 2018 for four hundred and ten thousand dollars.
Family sale, under market, done properly through a solicitor.
The deposit was one hundred and eighty-four thousand dollars.
That money was mine.
My father, Hugh Bright, died on the eleventh of August, 2017, of a stroke, in a lay-by outside Corran, aged sixty-one.
He was a lorry driver for thirty-four years and he owned a small house in Merrow that he’d paid off in 2009, and when he died it was sold and I got what was in it.
Every penny of that deposit came from a man who never once set foot in this house.
Solange got the four hundred and ten thousand. It cleared the debt on the farm and it bought her the bungalow on Fentiman Row in Ashglen village that she has lived in ever since, outright, with a good deal left over.
