When they ask me to have a look at the cat, in case old age has gone to his head, my first glance is not at...
I havent set foot in my sons flat for ages. Not by choice, not by chance. The tears had long run dry. Grief had settled into...
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...
By the pikes command Gillian had been an avid angler ever since she was a girl, and even after she finally hung up her work boots...
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...
I was trying to get on with the kitchen when my motherinlaw started barking orders, and I just pointed her at the door. Oi, Ivy, whos...
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...
14October2025 Dear Diary, I can still hear Sarahs voice echoing through the polished oak of my new office as she handed me the promotion letter. Congratulations,...
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...
The Keller manor in Surrey sat poised in its immaculate, chilly silence most days, its marble corridors echoing only with...
The brides mother, Margaret Whitfield, slotted me into the worst table with a smug grin. Know your place, she said....
28October2025 Today I sat at the kitchen table, the old brass kettle humming, and tried to untangle the knot of...
The High Street was noisy today, just like any spring day here in London when the city finally wakes up...
Emily was racing to work, terribly latean absolute nightmare! If she didnt duck through the turnstile before the editorinchief, shed...
Rain taps against the windowsill of the rented onebed flat in Camden. Andrew watches the droplets trace whimsical patterns on...
Granddad, eek! Sam, lanky and wrapped in an oversized coat, tugged at his grandfathers arm, his little fingers still probing...
Dear Diary, This morning I was watering the geraniums on the windowsill when Elsie burst into the kitchen, her face...
Ill never forget the night I brought my wife, Eleanor, home from St.Marys Hospital in Devon. Shed given birth to...
The Hawthorne manor sits quiet almost every dayspotless, chilled, and costly. Jonathan Hawthorne, a millionaire always in a sharp suit...