So anyway… What did happen to Grandad, and who was the mystery man in Charlotte’s drawing? For that matter, where do all those odd socks disappear to during the wash?
These and other mysteries are woven into a series of seemingly ordinary situations, centred for the most part around people’s relationships. But amid the love and the loss, the harmony and the conflict, there are some unsettling surprises along the way. Here, as well, we meet the bogeyman of crippling guilt, the dark spectre of revenge, and men, women and children who break the traditional gender-mould or who are simply feeling the strain of our expectations of them.
And who on earth is Bob?