The summer train

Could broken-hearted Maddie really go on holiday alone?

CATHY grunted as she struggled to open a jar of marmalade. Standing tall and athletic, amidst boxes piled high on the scarred wooden table in her new farmhouse kitchen, she inhaled the scents of woods

WHAT was it about an infinite horizon that made you able to breathe properly? Triss shielded her eyes against the sparkling new day’s sun to gaze at the swishing North Sea. She looked forward to this

MARTA had been a homemaker for 27 years and had looked after her family all that time. One day, she was at the beach with her pregnant daughters and overheard them talking about their childcare plans.

C a z climbed out of the open-air ...

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