The Cooley boys used to spend all their summers at the cottage in west Wales. They had a boat, so most of their time they were on the water, or playing cricket on the beach, or helping their mother who was restoring the cottage. For whole days that summer when Graham was thirteen she was up on the roof in shorts and T-shirt and old daps, reslating. Their father went off every day alone, to paint landscapes...

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