Starting work on her new project - photographing murder houses - she returns to the island where she grew up. The Isle is embedded in her identity, her draughty house that overlooked the bay, the feeling of being nowhere, the memory of her childhood friend Shirley and the devastating familicide of her family by the father John. Now, back on the island, Cath can uncover the nefarious truths and curious nature of John : his hidden obsession with the local myths of the fairy folk.
The Good Neighbours is an enquiry into the unknowability of the past and our attempts to make events fit our need to interpret them ; the fallibility of memory ; the power of myths in shaping human narratives.
Starting work on her new project - photographing murder houses - she returns to the island where she grew up. The Isle is embedded in her identity, her draughty house that overlooked the bay, the feeling of being nowhere, the memory of her childhood friend Shirley and the devastating familicide of her family by the father John. Now, back on the island, Cath can uncover the nefarious truths and curious nature of John : his hidden obsession with the local myths of the fairy folk.
The Good Neighbours is an enquiry into the unknowability of the past and our attempts to make events fit our need to interpret them ; the fallibility of memory ; the power of myths in shaping human narratives.