The Story of Danny Dunn
“After the inquiry, the Minister for Housing, covering his arse, had been quick to find all the boarding-house residents’ Housing-Commission accommodation superior to the slum cubicles they’d formerly occupied. The lodgers left with a zeal that expressed the general opinion of the properties, and most people assumed that Brenda, hitherto respected as a businesswoman of some standing, had suffered some sort of brainstorm.
Brokendown Street was well named; even the factories on the foreshore h...ad fallen into disrepair, judging from the rusted corrugated-iron roofs, sagging fences and abandoned machinery. In fact, there were very few parts of Balmain that could match its air of decrepitude. The accumulation of human detritus in the rundown boarding houses had added to the general sense of desolation, and yet their removal only made the street seem even more godforsaken. Brokendown Street was a real-estate nightmare, and even Danny and Helen’s well-kept house and garden was referred to by the locals as The Big Dunny.MoreLess
Brokendown Street was well named; even the factories on the foreshore h...ad fallen into disrepair, judging from the rusted corrugated-iron roofs, sagging fences and abandoned machinery. In fact, there were very few parts of Balmain that could match its air of decrepitude. The accumulation of human detritus in the rundown boarding houses had added to the general sense of desolation, and yet their removal only made the street seem even more godforsaken. Brokendown Street was a real-estate nightmare, and even Danny and Helen’s well-kept house and garden was referred to by the locals as The Big Dunny.MoreLess
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