~~~~ chapter 9 it was at the beginning of the month of september , in the year of our lord 1982 - three years into the thatcher era - the mary rose would see daylight in less than a month , 437 years after ignominiously sinking below the waves in the solent , and the country was still bathing in the reflected glory of the falklands war ( unless you were the argentinian ambassador that is ) - and it was when suzie met shaun .