Diary, 12May The husband walked out with a younger woman. I didnt break down. I simply sat down, breathed out, and for the first time in...
He turned up after a year of silence. He asked if he could be my husband again. He stood in the doorway with the same battered...
He left me for someone younger. A week later he called, asking if he could come back. He packed a suitcase and walked out without looking...
I fell in love after my sixtieth birthday, and my daughter says I should be embarrassed. Mother, have you lost your marbles? my daughter shouted, eyeing...
I slipped away from my husband after forty years. At last I dared to live as I chose. Everyone clasped their foreheads. Relatives, neighbours, even the...
Forty years have passed, yet I still think of him. One day I resolved to find him again. By chancewhile scrolling through the web between a...
I found my mothers diary tucked away in the back of an old wardrobe. When I turned its pages, the puzzle of why she had always...
Hey love, you wont believe the call I got today. The phone rang, an unknown number, and I answered straight away while my hands were still...
I raised my granddaughter for twelve years, convinced that her mother had gone abroad for work. One afternoon the girl finally told me the truth I...
Dear Diary, My adult son, James, has always kept his distance. When the accident landed him in the hospital, I finally glimpsed the other side of...
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....