Story What She Kept Was the Royal Doulton. Seventy Pounds the Lot.
Part five of five. The clock is in a private collection in the Netherlands. What Aoife took out of the house was worth nothing at all.
Inheritance Drama
Original fiction, labelled as such and not legal advice. Wills concentrate decades of family history into a single document.
Story More like this
Story Then Her Brother Rang and Said She Should Have More Than a Third
Part four of five. The clock made the estate worth fifty-seven thousand pounds. The second conversation was the one Aoife had not prepared for.
Story She Rang Them Before She Knew What It Was Worth
Part three of five. Four seconds in a hallway, and the decision the entire story turns on.
Story He Turned It Over and Did Not Say Anything for a While
Part two of five. It had not worked since 1998 and had a dent in the corner from when Marcus was eleven.
Story Forty Years of Work Came to Twenty-Six Thousand Pounds
Part one of five. The house was worth less than the loan against it. On the family call, Marcus said what everybody was thinking and should not have said.