How to perfect the ‘no makeup’ look

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

KITTY’S LONG RED hair was dripping as she sat down breathless on the nearest seat. She had thought she would miss the train. The narrow lanes around her parents’ house had been flooded and she had bee

‘He’s been a poppet, as always,’ Anne said when I arrived at her house to collect my son. On the days that I worked, my ex-mother-in-law picked Ezra up from school for me. She smiled indulgently. ‘He

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

Lightning-fast wifi, on-demand entertainment and never being far from a phone charger have been the modern metrics of a life well-lived, both at work and home. So why are the best-connected women suddenly booking digital detoxes and scouring eBay for brick phones? WH computes how logging off became 2025’s wellness power move

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