Driving down Oxford Street, I happened to see my daughter and grandson in worn out clothes, begging for change. Darling, where is the house and the...
NOT THE RIGHT ALEX Daisy was standing in front of her mirror, changing her earrings for the third time. So, Button, she said to her little...
I was driving along a wintry A-road, hedgerows thick with snow on either side, my little Ford humming steadily beneath me. The world was white and...
Aunt Rachels tea set bit the dust. For good. Her wedding chinafor twelve people, mind you. Farewell, gold rims and the little Made in Germany seals...
Im twenty-six, and my wife keeps telling me I have a problem I refuse to face.She brings it up every time I quit a job or...
27 March Its strange how quickly life can unravel. After the accident, I found myself laid up in a hospital bed in London, battered and barely...
I felt deeply embarrassed about attending my own sons wedding, knowing my clothes were old and worn-out. Amongst all the well-dressed guests at the church, I...
What do you think youre doing? This is my home! Your son and I divorced three years ago! cried the woman as she caught sight of...
I work as a chef in a small, cosy café in Manchester. One evening, as I was locking up and switching off the lights behind the...
STRAIGHT THROUGHJames and Lauren met at a charity gala in Manchester, a shimmering affair clouded by low June mist.Both lived lives that smelt of toast and...
Margaret, a gentle woman of 67 years, steadfastly maintained her cherished custom of daily strolls through the village green. Yet...
My life has always been shaped by the distinct absence of my father. As I grew older, a restless itch...
From the outside, I must have looked like a happy woman: a mother of three, fluent in several languages, with...
There once lived an elderly couple in our neighbourhood, folks I remember well, and with them resided their daughter, Mary,...
For reasons lost in the fog, many women seem to think that once theyve passed forty, and especially after a...
My husband and I have been married for seven years. Life together has been good, even wonderful at times. My...
You know, I was sitting across from him in one of those fancy London restaurantsthe kind where the waiters glide...
25th January Todays events deserve to be recorded, if only for posterity and a dash of amusement. My suitor, as...
When people are friendslike an old married couple, mind yousooner or later a squabble breaks out. The more people, the...
Mum remarried eleven years ago. My stepfather, Philip, had a daughter, Charlotte, from his first marriageshe was fourteen at the...