The power of love (island)

We suspect you know where you were, half a decade ago this spring, when then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the country to ‘stay home, protect the NHS, save lives’. But as research paints an increasingly detailed picture of the ways in which those years shaped everything from our health habits to our identities, academics are asking a different question: who were you back then? And who are you now?

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 ...

Cruising into the sunset with a rich widower – could Cherry make her dream come true?

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

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