I became an optimist the night my wife died

In the depths of grief, author Cathy Bramley discovered a way to pull through that helped her not only escape the darkness, but also adapt to a new way of living with happiness at its core

Three women share how persevering against all odds can lead to a wealth of new opportunities

Novels, for me, have come from somewhere I wasn’t looking. In my twenties I was carrying an idea about a woman wandering around Ireland on a quest she didn’t understand and I sat in the Reading Room o

After her brother died, photographer Jo Ritchie found herself unable to pick up a camera. But with a portrait series, she has built a community that turns loss into light, resilience and hope, writes Peter Dench

Psychologists believe 50 per cent of our happiness is determined by genes and 10 per cent by our life circumstances, which leaves 40 per cent dependent on the activities and habits we repeat daily. Can our writer, Kim Willis , transform her life as simply as A-B-C?

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