After Lorraine lost her beloved granddaughter, she struggled to cope. Then came another devastating heartbreak…

In 1976, the revolutionary singer-songwriter LAURA NYRO returned from self-imposed exile. But her comeback confounded expectations, shifting away from the impassioned intimacies of her early albums to embrace more radical perspectives. Fifty years on, Nyro’s collaborators revisit her striking second act. “She was a hip American from the Bronx,” one friend and producer tells Rob Hughes. “But her soul was old.”

My boy was the light of my li fe yet he was fading fast

Dear Stephen, W atching you, then aged 13, ...

Sophie Kotze, 36, is determined to make special memories with her daughter Skye

My teen daughter predicted tragedy, but a gift from above would help heal our hearts.