Number 5 - Tapa blanda

Number 5 is a three-bedroom terrace house in a suburban Belfast street. From the '50s to the present day, successive occupants fill the house with their troubles and joys, simply trying to cope with all that life hurls their way whilst outside the front door the city shivers and sweats with the passing seasons. As fashions and tastes change according to each generation moving into Number 5, so the social fault lines of the city shift. Yet the presence of those who have come before is an ever-present memory ...

Glenn Patterson's previous novels are Burning Your Own, Fat Lad, Black Night at Big Thunder Mountain and The Internationl. He lives in Belfast.