The tiny black eye stared at her from between the spines of books. Eleanor brushed the dust from the
The flat was gone. Just like that. “Your flat? What do you mean *your* flat?” “
Emily and James divorced when their daughter Lily turned two years old. James simply couldnt live with
They laughed at her, called her plain, mocked her as “Giraffe,” but when she returned years
In our little Yorkshire village, where gossip travels faster than the postman on his rounds, I thought
Two Years in Silence: She Cut Me Out as I Approach 70 Two years had slipped by without a word from my daughter.
“Marina, you can’t leave me! What will I do without you?” “The same as always
“Alright, so picture thismy husbands family kept looking down on me because they thought I was broke.
“No, Mum. You wont be coming round anymore. Not today, not tomorrow, not next year.”
James remembered that day with startling clarity, as though it were only yesterday. A bitter autumn wind