My name is Emily. When I first met her I was twentytwo, shoulders weighed down by a grief too heavy to bear. I had just lost...
I meet James at a quantumphysics lecture in Cambridge. It sounds dull, but among the equations about parallel universes I spot a kindred spirit. He sits...
The envelope again, while all we get is a jar of pickles? I think to myself as I stare at the kitchen table in my motherinlaws...
Ive got to tell you about Ellies mess, and I swear it felt like a scene straight out of a gloomy British drama. She only found...
13March I asked Poppy to look after Charlie for a couple of hours while I met the lads. Alex, I really need to see the doctor,...
Toni Harper was weeding the vegetable beds when a voice called her name from the back garden. She wiped the sweat from her brow, stepped to...
Dear Diary, They kept insisting I leave the newborn in the maternity ward. Why did you even bring her home? my husband, Tom, muttered, gesturing at...
The memory of a wedding had haunted Emma Clarke since she was ten. She had been a guest at her cousins ceremony in a grand hall...
Listen, its a bit awkward to admit, Daniel smiled sheepishly, tapping his fingers on the table. I left my wallet at home, all the cards are...
After twentythree years of marriage, Veronicas domestic life had become intolerably dull. Her daughter had wed and moved to London with her husband, leaving only her...