I was sixty when the wedding bells finally rang, and George was sixtyfive. It was my first marriage, his first as well, and wed tied the...
Margaret Clarke tried to take charge of my kitchen, and I pointed her toward the door. Blythe, whos chopping onions like that? It isnt for soup,...
It was many years ago, in the quiet Yorkshire hamlet where my husbands family lived, that I first found myself in a heated discussion with my...
Congratulations, Emily! Youre now the regional director. The chairs still warm from the previous boss, and you already look right at home in it. Honestly, Emily,...
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...