She realises her motherinlaw is ill, keeping the diagnosis a secret while still fussing over herher daughterinlaw. Even now she...
Ian drove off for a week to his lovers flat, hoping to reeducate his wife. He came back to find...
Emma, well be staying at your cottage all summer, declared my brother, Ian, with a grin that seemed to stretch...
Emily, has Tom told you anything yet? the motherinlaw asked, her voice brisk. Listen, were expecting up to twenty guests,...
The garden air feels as if time has stopped. It hangs heavy, thick with the scent of summer and something...
At my late husbands funeral a silverhaired stranger leaned close and murmured, Now we are free. He was the man...
My future daughterinlaw once said, Only true mothers sit in the front row, and my son answered in a way...
Oliver slams the fridge door, nearly toppling the shelves, and a magnet clatters to the floor. Milly stands opposite him,...
Victor stood on the front step, the man I had once married twice, the one Id divorced four years ago....
I still recall, as though from a distant age, how Thomas drove away for a week to stay with his...
