Eleven years ago, when my mother learned that the child she had given birth to was born with a crippled leg, she wrote a formal declaration...
I was the one who had to watch over Emma after she split from her husband, a reckless bloke who left her just after their son...
I was trudging home late one night, deadtired you know how it feels when, out of nowhere, all the patients seem to catch something at once....
I was pulling the key and nearly fainted three fluffy guests were already waiting at the door. It was that endless, drizzly autumn rain again. I...
Blythe, love, youre turning 33 today! Im so thrilled for you and Ive got this little something I made at my knitting class, said Margaret Hargreaves,...
Milo sat by the garden gate and waited. One day. Two days. A week The first snow fell, and he still sat there. His paws were...
I still remember the day I slipped out of the gate of the old ballbearing factory in Sheffield, a thin slip of paper clenched in my...
Hey, Ive got to tell you about my first week at the new residential care home in Manchester it feels like a whole other world. I...
Just crash at a friends, love, my aunts arriving from Sheffield for a month, Victor said, sliding my suitcase out the door. Mrs. Clarke! Mrs. Clarke,...
I always thought Claire didnt have a clue about my second family, so I was taken aback when she turned up at my daughters graduation. Are...
My mother was strikingly beautiful, though my father would say that was her sole advantage. I, who adored him with...
Open the bag, now! The CCTV can see everything, theres no way youll get away! Take it all out! The...
Cold Divorce: The Dream of Emma and James It is a strange, cold feeling to wake and discover love turning...
Did you see her, ladies? The old woman in our ward? I asked the other nurses, halfsmiling as I leaned...
Margaret lived alone on her modest pension, tucked away in a tiny Cotswold village where the world seemed to consist...
Family? Tell Christopher to come at once! the daughter shrieked. All three of the little ones have a fever, theyre...
I used to watch Eleanor sweeping the stairwells of the old council tower, hoping the work would build a future...
Oliver lived in a ninestorey council block where the walls were thinner than a teabag and every neighbours sneeze bounced...
Open the rucksack at once! the words cut through the air. In the bustling shoemaking hall of the Manchester plant,...
Hey love, you wont believe what I overheard it finally made sense why he married me in the first place....