You wear it well

IT was one of those conversations on the bus that makes you keen to hear the rest of it. “You know, I really wasn’t in the mood to go,” the woman on the seat in front of me was saying to her companion

DANA NOVAK took a good, long look at the man. She knew that none of her clothes back at the tiny apartment she shared were going to cut it – not when introducing herself to Fischer. And she certainly

Souvenirs from past times bring back happy memories for Jenny and Tess

SANDIE was no stranger to starting afresh. In her younger days, she’d moved on from failing relationships, dingy flats and boring jobs more times than she cared to remember. She’d found it easy to acc

EMILY’S love of shoes was well known and much mocked within her family. Her husband, James, joked that she bought a new pair every time she set foot outside the house. Her grown-up daughter, Cara, sim

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