Supermarket Flowers By Dermot Bolger

A deteriorating relationship between a woman who owns a house, outside which a child is knocked down at a bus stop, and the grieving mother who insists on leaving fresh flowers there each day turning the woman's garden wall into a permanent shrine.

Jane Brennan reads Dermot Bolger's short story.

Dermot Bolger is one of Ireland's most prolific writers. His radio plays for BBC Radio 4 include 'The Night Manager' and 'The Fortunestown Kid' and the radio version of his own novel 'The Woman's Daughter' broadcast in seven countries and winner of the Worldplay Award for best script.

Producer: Gemma McMullan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016.

A woman is upset that her garden wall has become a permanent shrine for a grieving mother.