Sinking the Ship and other stories

Macaroni cheese. Staple diet on camp! Macaroni and grated Bonehead’s fingers in a cheese sauce. I made the sauce. Tom boiled the macaroni — that took a lot of skill — while Sinéad and Caitrín prepared some vegetables.

‘Rebecca goes to boarding school, she’s fifteen years old, she’s got her GCSEs this year and she’s bored…’

But that was two years ago. Now she’s seventeen, in the upper sixth, her A levels are looming and for reasons which will become clear later she just has to get good grades.

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