Heatwave

Picture this: it’s a balmy summer night, you’re in your favourite sundress, you have a glistening tan, a crisp glass of rosé in your hand and the sound of laughter washes over you as you sit in a beer

SOPHIE sat in the beachside café sipping a chilled lemonade as the cool Aegean sea lapped the blond Cretan sand. The first time she’d sat here, she had just broken up with Ryan. Or, rather, Ryan had b

Coming up for air

SOMETIMES it felt as if I was the only competent one in the family. Take our big American trip, for instance. Everyone – my husband and all the kids – had been bungling it from the start. I suppose th

IT was three o’clock in the afternoon and still raining. It started the moment they arrived, and Sharon watched with a heavy heart as the rain took hold and the sky darkened. Even she, queen of all pl

Claudia Savage-Gore watches her friends succumb to lust