She came back home to find neither husband nor his belongings. What are you looking at me like that? Zoe teased, her smile wide. Stanley just...
Peter Johnson married Laura Brown when her daughter Emily was ten. Emily still remembered her biological father, who had died two years earlier, and at first...
Im done cleaning up after you, Julia shouted, her voice echoing like a broken teacup. It would be easier to kick you out, get divorced, finally...
What do you mean nothings been made for dinner? We didnt come here for you! George, my fatherinlaw, said, plopping down at the empty kitchen table....
The flat was dead quiet. It was such a grave silence that I didnt even realise at first what had woken me. No alarm clock, no...
Just Mum says youve become odd, James says, echoshaking the words as they hang in the kitchen of their flat in Manchester. Ah, Mum says Elsie...
Just Mum says youve become odd, James says, echoshaking the words as they hang in the kitchen of their flat in Manchester. Ah, Mum says Elsie...
Whats with you and that Poppy? Why do you even need a wife like that? She had the baby, got all soft, now she waddles around...
I married the neighbour who is eightytwo, and he still swears it was his greatest folly. When I told my sister, she nearly choked on a...
Dad, please dont turn up at school today, alright? Why, Ellie? Youre about to get a prize; I wanted to see that face. No, dont. Everyone...
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....