The house is one room up and one room down and the tide comes to the step, and the water is against the window by half past ten.

There is a bed and a candle and a chair and a mark on the wall where the tide has been higher, and that is the whole of the furniture.

MilaIt is warmer than the flat. That is the first thing I noticed and it is the thing I am most angry about.

PorterWe are not leaving you in here on your own to be given things by the sea and forget them.