70 CHAPTER 9
North Sydney, Australia, the present dayNick woke with a trace of a hangover that was quickly diminished with a smile as he thought back over his evening with Susan.
He showered and dressed in a polo shirt and jeans and walked from his one-bedroom flat to North Sydney station, eschewing the bus in order to clear his head. He caught the train to Granville, in Sydney’s west. The two suburbs in which he and his aunt Sheila MacKenzie lived were about as different as two places could be and still be in the same city or country.
In half an hour he had swapped the high-rise office blocks and expensive harbourside properties of where he lived for the factories and terraced houses of the landlocked suburbs which had traditionally been a first stop for the waves of immigrants who had
