James, can you hear yourself? So Im supposed to wait until Im forty to fix the mistakes of your youth? And why should I foot the...
Look after my mother, it isnt that hard, is it? Emily, you understand, said Margaret Harper, her voice edged with worry. My mum isnt the same...
I was sitting on the cot in the maternity ward, legs tucked under me, and I kept shouting, I dont want him. Im done with him....
Give it up! You promised youd quit! James, have you lost your mind?Emma asked, pulling herself together.Who turns down a post like that? Do you even...
James paced the cramped flat, frantically opening and closing the wardrobe doors as if the answer might be hidden among the hanging coats. Did you really...
I live with a man I met at a health resort. Before I can tell anyone, my daughter texts: Mum, I heard youve moved out. Is...
Learning that the child was born with a limp, his mother eleven years earlier had written a refusal letter. Sam Ives had seen that document himself...
Lily raised her boy alone. Her husband, a notorious lout, vanished the moment their son was born, and she filed for divorce straight away. The only...
I was trudging home late one evening, utterly exhausted it felt as if, on nights like this, every patient in the practice decided to fall ill...
Emily turned the key and went numb: three fluffy guests were perched on the doorstep. The same endless, dreary autumn rain hammered the world, and she...
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....