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It’s the 90s and life in Number 5 seems good, until God gets involved.

It’s the 1990s and things are looking up in Belfast. The Eliot family seem happy in Number 5, but then God shows up.

In Glenn Patterson’s novel, Number 5 is a three-bedroom terrace house in suburban Belfast. From the 1950s to the present day, successive occupants fill the house with their troubles and joys. As fashions and tastes change according to each of Number 5’s owners, so the social fault lines of the city shift. Yet the presence of those who have gone before lingers on.

It’s now the 1990s and ex-soldier Steve, Catriona and their two children, the latest occupants of Number 5, are just beginning to enjoy the benefits of the Peace dividend, when God intervenes.

Author: Glenn Patterson 
Ali White reads PART 4 – ELIOT
Produced and abridged by Eoin O’Callaghan
Executive Editor: Andy Martin

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The story of a three-bedroom terrace house in suburban Belfast through the decades.

Glenn Patterson's story of a three-bedroom terrace house in suburban Belfast through the decades. Abridged by Eoin O’Callaghan.

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