Ian drove off for a week to his lovers flat, hoping to reeducate his wife. He came back to find a new reality waiting in the...
Emma, well be staying at your cottage all summer, declared my brother, Ian, with a grin that seemed to stretch the sky. I felt the words...
Emily, has Tom told you anything yet? the motherinlaw asked, her voice brisk. Listen, were expecting up to twenty guests, so well start the preparations in...
The garden air feels as if time has stopped. It hangs heavy, thick with the scent of summer and something bitter, acridlike burnt plastic mixed with...
At my late husbands funeral a silverhaired stranger leaned close and murmured, Now we are free. He was the man I had loved in my twentieth...
My future daughterinlaw once said, Only true mothers sit in the front row, and my son answered in a way that left everyone seeing the truth....
Oliver slams the fridge door, nearly toppling the shelves, and a magnet clatters to the floor. Milly stands opposite him, pale, fists clenched tight. Feeling better...
Victor stood on the front step, the man I had once married twice, the one Id divorced four years ago. In his hands he cradled a...
I still recall, as though from a distant age, how Thomas drove away for a week to stay with his lover, hoping the absence would set...
I called it off I actually cancelled the wedding. Yeah, you heard right. Just two weeks before the day wed been dreaming about, picking venues, choosing...