Dorothy spencer

WHEN Dad said that he and Kirsty were having a baby, I was surprised. Mum had always described Kirsty as “a career woman” and, when I asked her what that meant, she said Kirsty was very focused on her

Looking at my son Jonny, all I see is the same smile that first drew me to his dad Ant when we met through friends back in 2007. The way that Jonny’s eyes crinkle when he laughs and how the corners of

Hunched over the toilet, I just wanted the awful feeling to be over. I’d never felt so nauseous and drained. ‘It wasn’t like this before,’ I cried to my partner Michael, then 37. After all, I had plen

IT was only Tuesday, and Jane was already missing the twins like mad. She gazed at yesterday’s photo on her phone. The two little girls all dressed up in their new blue uniforms and standing in the pl

After 50 years of heartache, Dawn Nunn has found peace at last…

Each month a reader writes to a loved one in the afterlife and Mandy Masters tunes in to share their reply. This month Sophey Walsh writes to her nan Penny