Oona was with Liam in a separate part of the suite where there was an enormous, wall-mounted television. It was switched on and tuned into a CNN news broadcast telling of a forest fire on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. I sat in one of the soft reclining chairs, one of those that wrap themselves around you as soon you sit, and I wondered why I hadn’t got them at home. At first, all I could think of was the hefty luxury this chair afforded me. I made a mental note to change the old leather chairs in the reception rooms of The Hall to soft chairs like these.
I think my mind needed the distraction because slowly, I was able to turn my attention towards news broadcasts, but not the current one; ones of years past.
If Bottomly and his pals in this far right-wing group the AWB were w
