‘at worst, i will love them from afar’

PAM glanced up at the clock on the far wall of the classroom. Just half an hour to go until the summer holidays began. Six blissful pupil-free weeks, to be spent mostly gardening and binge watching pe

I was waiting to meet a very special person, but losing one too

I WAS only five when Elaine first came into my life. She was tall and dark skinned, with a perfume that smelled of roses and big necklaces in bright colours that bounced as she laughed. Whenever my da

My beloved Fiona and me Dear Fiona, ...

We’re having a girl!’ my husband Rick, then 29, shouted as he spun me around and pink confetti showered down around us. It was March 2016 and I was 14 weeks pregnant with our first baby. Rick had kept

It came out of nowhere, and I happened to be with Angela at the time. She’s my sister. Growing up I’d always been the plain one – gawky, angular, with a bump on my nose and wiry red hair it had taken