The Swallows Nest When Jack married Winifred, his mother immediately took to his new wife. She had long fancied the girl, ever since Jack was a...
The telephone rang, and a voice on the other end announced, Your husband has been in an accident. But that isnt all It sounded rehearsed, cold...
Dear Diary, Why do you think you have the right to shuffle my belongings around and thrust me into a situation I havent even discussed? Im...
Dear Diary, Back in Year Nine, I first noticed how Ian would always seem to find me with his gaze. Even in class I could feel...
Glen was still nursing the sting of his argument with Emily as he drove his silver Ford Focus home through the rainslick streets of London. The...
It’s not a toy Why do you want a child now, Natalie? Youre nearly forty! What could you possibly manage? Sarah laughed, wiping tears from the...
On the very day I retired, my husband announced that he was leaving for someone else. I didnt faint, I didnt scream, I didnt smash a...
On a bleak winter evening, Eleanor slipped out of her modest cottage in the rolling hills of Yorkshire as the first flakes drifted down, large and...
The Swallows Nest When William Harper married Eleanor, his mother got on with her daughterinlaw straight away. Shed had her eye on Eleanor long before, back...
James came home late that night and, without a word, set a thick envelope on the kitchen table. The moment I saw it, I felt how...