Escape to pompeii

THEY say that the true test of a friendship is to spend a holiday together. Initially, when this idea was mooted, Faye had felt rather hesitant. She’d known Beverley for less than a year. And though t

KATY stretched and yawned. She felt refreshed by the fragrance of rosemary floating in through her bedroom window from pots outside the apartment’s main entrance, three storeys down. She rubbed sleep

Sunning herself on a lounger, Claire wriggled her toes and wondered whether to put on some more suncream or have a dip in the pool. “Laura, do you fancy a swim?” She nudged her friend who was engrosse

Michelle was disappointed when she discovered that there weren’t any biscuits in the welcome pack, but after telling herself that she shouldn’t eat so many sweet things anyway, she made herself a coff

SOPHIE sat in the beachside café sipping a chilled lemonade as the cool Aegean sea lapped the blond Cretan sand. The first time she’d sat here, she had just broken up with Ryan. Or, rather, Ryan had b

SHAZ looked at herself in the mirror before jamming on her hat and picking up her bag containing her essentials for the day. She was now ready to enter the fray. She hurried down to the hotel lobby, s