“Back in the car you call your wife and imagine her sitting by the window of her hotel room looking out on the shitty weather, feeling shitty herself. She answers and says in Portuguese, aren’t you supposed to be in that evening class, and you say yes, but you left. Why, she asks, and you sigh and if a sigh could echo in a car it would but it can’t so it doesn’t. How’s your mum, she asks. I’ll see her tomorrow. Are you bringing Ailish? No, Katie will mind her. You should bring her, she says, it might cheer your mum up, who knows it might get her speaking English.”

From ‘The Language of Remembering’– included in the showcase