Lila, think it over again! pleaded her eighteenyearold mother, Margaret. Hes a proper adult! Twice your age. Whats so wonderful about being with him, dear? Please,...
Twobed flat? Not a chance for me! Ill put the lease in Graces name and move in with you. Youre living alone anyway, Nora said, never...
22January Im seated at the kitchen table, the old kettle humming, and I cant stop the words from spilling out of me. I want a divorce,...
Listen says Davids fatherinlaw, John, sternly weve taken you into the family, we treat you like one of our own, and you turn down even the...
When I turned fifteen, my mother and father declared, as if it were a law of the universe, that we simply required another child. So James...
I am sixty years old and I live in Birmingham. I never imagined that after everything I have endured, after twenty years of quiet and isolation,...
Listen, love, Ive got to vent about the absolute nightmare of my weekends lately. Imagine this: you think a couple of days off will be just...
Dear Diary, My sons wife has become a constant source of friction at every family gathering. Your wife is ruining all our celebrations, I told Jack...
Blythe Clarke never tossed me a penny for my wedding, and now shes invited me to hers. Oliver Morgan and Blythe tied the knot a year...
Youre not my wife, youre a servant. You have no children! Mother, Poppy is staying here. The flat is being refurbished and cant be lived in....
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...
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Did you see her, ladies? The old woman in our ward? I asked the other nurses, halfsmiling as I leaned...
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I used to watch Eleanor sweeping the stairwells of the old council tower, hoping the work would build a future...
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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....