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There are moments of brilliant writing, and the story itself is a wellcrafted and tightly woven work masterfully done. Patrick and rose mcfadden live on the farm next to jamie. The writer handles the situations with skill and has an interesting manner of injecting humour into her language. His amiable neighbor, rose, has spotted a lonely hearts advert in the local newspaper and believes that. They are as likely as any one else to feel adrift from.