CHAPTER 5
As far as I was concerned the job was the best of the very poor selection on offer and initially I was tempted not to apply. I wasn’t desperate for the money as my parents had recently signed over to me the monies they’d kept in trust for my deceased brother, Matt. It was a considerable sum our parents had intended to give him as a wedding gift. They’d hung onto it in a separate account so it’d accrued quite a bit of interest over the years. It came with a solicitor’s letter coldly informing me that it was a once and for all gift and that they were emigrating with no forwarding address given.
So be it, they were no loss.
However I knew that in order to keep the authorities off my back I had to show willing so I figured I’d go for the interview but deliberately perform badly un
