The place actually belongs to my mother, but her health isn't great, so we finally managed to persuade her to move in with us and rent this old place out.
" Yes, well, it is empty, at the moment-but I can't rent it out yet. My nephew is interested, and he's got first dibs on it, so I'm waiting to hear from him."
Several times Katharine made the five-hour round trip from Stratford to London for viewings, only to find that the flat had already been let – or was being fiercely contested.
He tried to lend the guy out a couple times during his stay, but people found him too gross or unrealistic-looking for whatever purposes they had in mind.