![]() Slowly, tentatively – with subtle and sensitive pacing by Joyce – she becomes involved with the Unity Street residents, and with Frank in particular, as her own painful secrets are revealed. Into this assortment of melancholic lives walks Ilse Brauchmann, a mysterious German woman in a green coat, who faints outside Frank’s shop. ![]() Meanwhile, Frank is battling with record companies who are pressurising him to stock CDs instead of his beloved vinyl. A local development company wants to acquire and demolish all the buildings to make way for housing. All these outsiders have survived, or are still struggling with, some adversity, and Joyce has a rare gift for evoking the quiet tragedies of their lives with compassion and care.īut Unity Street is under threat. There is Maud the tattooist, Father Anthony with his shop devoted to religious iconography, Mr Novak the baker and the heartbreakingly poignant Williams brothers, who run the funeral parlour and are often seen holding hands. ![]()
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