The kitchen was a battlefield, and Doris Whitaker clutched a block of butter as if it were a poisonous toad. Emily, have you bought that fancy...
When John married Evelyn, his motherinlaw immediately took to her new daughterinlaw. Shed watched Evelyn from the schoolyard years earlier, when John still sprinted to the...
Oliver lived in a ninestorey council block where the plaster was as thin as tissue paper and any neighbours sneeze reverberated through the heating pipes. He...
I thought my husband was cheating. It turned out to be something far worse. The phone is on silent, yet I hear it vibrate on the...
Winter Evening The first light of dawn slipped through the thin veil of clouds as I stepped out of my cottage in Little Whittle, a scattered...
Fate extended a hand Emilys family had seemed proper enough at first: a father, a mother, a tidy house in a quiet Norfolk village. By the...
Dear Diary, Im writing this after a week of endless squabbles with my sisterinlaw, Victoria, and her demanding sister, Alison. It began yesterday when Alison burst...
Emily, Ive told you a hundred timesnow isnt the time for children, she said, snapping her laptop shut and turning to her husband. Ive just been...
We always think lifes already complicated, then we go and make it even trickier. Back in school, Emily could see at a glance that she liked...
I promised my daughter Emma that I would mind little Jack for just a few days. a week at most and I never imagined how that...
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....