Maya is a love island winner

Have you learned everything by your 30s or do different versions of yourself appear with every decade? We asked five brilliantly wise women what they’ve discovered along the way

Sally Cutts, 45, from Fleet, Hampshire Aftertaste ...

I started running in my teens. It helped after Mum died, especially if I’d just had a ‘teen strop’ with Dad (his words). We loved each other to bits, me and Dad, but that only made our confrontations

I used to feel safe with Dad, until one night changed everything

He controlled every part of my life, right down to my haircut

Marie looked around the garden, wondering why she hadn’t bought the upstairs flat instead. But no. The middle house of this terrace of three had been converted into two flats, and she’d been so excite