If you missed Parts 1, 2 and 3, this link takes you to the full story. Part 4 of 4. Three months later Max returns for a study break beneath the mountains. He calls at the food van first. Maddie's friend Chrissie, serves a customer his coffees. She sees Max and squeals with delight, running from the van to hug him. It's now off-season for the food van so she doesn't get as many hours, but she's so happy. He goes inside and Patrick's looking after the food. He greets Max with

If you missed Parts 1 and 2, this link takes you to the full story. Part 3. The meeting is with Ma, Flo, Max and Billy, who arrives late. He's on the offensive because Max is trying to be superior and push his own agenda. He wants Max to stay away from his family and he should have learned that lesson by now. Billy can make Max leave this town tonight and he won't ever want to return. Max won't leave, for two good reasons. The first, because he can bring Billy's daughter back

If you missed Part 1, this link takes you to the full story. Part 2 of 4. Max emerges from the study house after a week and limps slowly to the shop, his severe injuries visible. Flo calls him from across the street to join them for coffee on the way back, but he waves his hand and quietly declines. She crosses the street to him because something has happened with Maddie and they need to talk, so Ma will have coffee ready. He agrees and hobbles down the street. He stopped out

Here are the links if you're looking for: Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 1. Billy Banner's a giant of a man and a career criminal. Max, a teenage student on study leave, always chatted to Billy's wife Florence (Flo) and his Mum Miriam (Ma), when walking past their house on the way to the shop. Over morning coffee with Flo and Ma, Max explains how writing Shakespearean soliloquies on butcher's paper and sticking them on the kitchen wall at the holiday house up the street, helps him