‘i am always conscious of the me who was not adopted. life is luck’

I always felt like something was missing

ONE OF THE MOST GRIMLY FUNNY POEMS OF the past century is Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse,” with its opening salvo about how our parents invariably mess us up. Larkin used a saltier word for “mess,

I WAS lonely. Papa was a preacher and we lived and travelled in a painted wooden wagon, pulled by Jessie, a large and docile shire horse. We had few possessions; there was no room for what Papa called

Counsellor Kate Medlin answers your personal, sexual and emotional problems

Anemone is not the first co-creation from Daniel Day-Lewis and his son Ronan Day-Lewis. But it’s the first one they’re sharing with the world. The new film – Day-Lewis junior’s first as a director and

TOM! What are you doing here?” I stopped gazing at the empty space in the centre of the table, to throw myself into my fiancé’s arms. “You’re not supposed to be here until tonight,” I told him. “I dec