if I loved you,i would tell you this

Robin Black

Many of the characters deal with difference. A woman hides her stroke from her husband; a man, mildly damaged at birth, ‘loses’ certain words. This is deftly dealt with, the disability informing the plot, rather than defining it.

A father and his blind teenage daughter travel to collect a guide dog, but the real story is the effect on the family of the accident years before, coupled with the daughter’s extraordinary insight. A heartless man causes a border dispute, erecting a fence just feet from his neighbour’s front door, but the point is how his casual thoughtlessness affects the couple struggling with illness and stress.