“Your mother, your real mother, I mean, she… died.” “What did she die of?” “She was kidnapped by a man when she was young, when she was… a child.” I had seen films and dramas about men who kidnapped young women. “Did he lock her in a cellar?” “Yes—well, no, it was an extension at the back of his house. He lived in a large house on a half acre of land in South Dublin. He kept her there for fourteen years.”
