Woman With a Secret
“Simon wondered. So far this morning on the Damon Blundy case, he’d interviewed a rabbi and a plastic surgeon, both of whom had been protected by a woman-barrier who would only let him through after a thorough interrogation—a wife in the rabbi’s case and a PA for the surgeon.
Bryn Gilligan’s gatekeeper was his mother, Jennifer: a tough-looking woman with muscly arms and three small diamond earrings in each ear, who lived in a strange kind of bungaloid mansion: very flat—only one story—but coveri...ng roughly the same square acreage as a large hospital might.
Simon was struck by the contrast with his own mother, her house, her behavior. Kathleen Waterhouse, throughout Simon’s childhood, had refused to open the front door of their three-bedroom redbrick semi at all, let alone block it with her body to protect her son. Not that anyone had ever come to the house who posed a threat to Simon; apart from the parish priest, no one had come to the house at all.
Jennifer Gilligan’s aim in barring the entrance to her ultramodern concrete-and-glass detached bungalow was not simply protective.MoreLess
Bryn Gilligan’s gatekeeper was his mother, Jennifer: a tough-looking woman with muscly arms and three small diamond earrings in each ear, who lived in a strange kind of bungaloid mansion: very flat—only one story—but coveri...ng roughly the same square acreage as a large hospital might.
Simon was struck by the contrast with his own mother, her house, her behavior. Kathleen Waterhouse, throughout Simon’s childhood, had refused to open the front door of their three-bedroom redbrick semi at all, let alone block it with her body to protect her son. Not that anyone had ever come to the house who posed a threat to Simon; apart from the parish priest, no one had come to the house at all.
Jennifer Gilligan’s aim in barring the entrance to her ultramodern concrete-and-glass detached bungalow was not simply protective.MoreLess
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