I’m still friends with my childhood pen pals

I’VE never met anyone who writes letters before. Not with actual pen and writing paper.” From the way Abbie is looking at me, anyone could be forgiven for thinking I am in the middle of some complicat

EVERY so often, someone arrives in your life unexpectedly. And before long, it’s as though they have always been there. You struggle to imagine life without them. That’s what happened to me, almost se

PAM glanced up at the clock on the far wall of the classroom. Just half an hour to go until the summer holidays began. Six blissful pupil-free weeks, to be spent mostly gardening and binge watching pe

Writer Kim Willis was just two years old when her mum walked out on the family. Here, in a letter, she explains how it made her feel...

When journalist and author Hunter Davies lost his wife of more than 50 years, the novelist Margaret Forster, he began writing to her instead

I WAS only five when Elaine first came into my life. She was tall and dark skinned, with a perfume that smelled of roses and big necklaces in bright colours that bounced as she laughed. Whenever my da