![]() ![]() ![]() One morning after she staggers home blind drunk, she wakes to find Douglas tied to a chair in her flat, his throat cut, with every indication that he’s spent the night in her company. Maureen’s job at the Apollo Theater ticket office barely keeps her in Glenfiddich and lime juice-and she’s got a lot to drown in drink, dating back to the days of her abuse by her vanished father. She’s eight months out of the Northern Psychiatric Hospital and has been carrying on an affair with therapist Douglas Brady, whose live-in, Elsbeth, it turns out, is his wife. Maureen O’Donnell ought to be able to look down on the world from her flat atop Garnethill, the highest point in Glasgow, but instead the world’s looking down on her. ![]()
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