He wondered what state his father was in these days.
He was not for ticking into a box his mind was otherwhere than home.
He was counted by nobody, included by nobody, went unnoticed, unmarked. The night the census was filled out in Irish homes, Roy was on a bus on the way to the airport. Roy believes his absence in the latest census is the reason for his inability to fit in and just get on with things. Roy works there as a cleaner, a cleaner who cleans but also removes figurines to create his own version of the Wunderland in his wardrobe. Wunderland is set in Hamburg's Miniatur Wunderland, a model railway exhibition with miniature lands full of figurines doing ordinary and not-so-ordinary things. For the Census Day that's in it, we're delighted to present an extract from Wunderland, the new novel by Caitriona Lally, the award-winning author of Eggshells.
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