Summary

In Chapter 1, a man wakes up in the middle of the night. He thinks he wakes up because he has to go to the toilet. He has to do this a lot during the night even though he is only 48 years old and thinks that this is something that happens to men who are much older. It is a sound, however, that really wakes him up. He gets up and goes to the toilet. It is cold and, while he is there, he laments about never placing a radiator in the house even though he has been meaning to do so since moving in after his divorce. That was over nine years ago. The entire house is cold in general, something his daughter has commented on as well. He is about to flush the toilet when he hears the sound again. He has...