Talking point

All around was snowy and frozen – yet someone was making Maria’s heart melt

A NEW year; a new millennium – the year 2000. Barbara leaned back against a massive boulder and gazed up at the canopy of stars. The other walkers in the group had fallen silent. There was nothing to

One day late in 1939, a small article appeared in our daily newspaper. It was submitted by the government and was an appeal for British women to knit socks for men in the army, which was unable to obt

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Maggie smoothes down the front of her frock – the same dyed black dress she wore for Pa’s funeral ten years before. As she touches the fabric, she glances down at her hands, now decorated with liver s