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Living opposite Number 5 for 43 years, Ivy knows a thing or two about its past.

Ivy Moore has lived opposite Number 5 for 43 years and she knows more than most about the many lives that were lived there. 

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 43 years since Ivy, then 17, moved into the house opposite Number 5. She has known all Number 5’s occupants intimately; some of them more intimately than she might have wished. 

Author: Glenn Patterson 
Áine McCartney reads Part 5 – IVY
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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