Dead before their time

Words can be all-powerful, as these three couples discovered. They reveal the romantic and unusual ways books brought them together…

She was all I had left, but was she telling me the truth? Sarah Corbett Lynch, 18, County Clare

IT had been a long, hard drive. Frances had left early, hoping to get away before the rush hour – only to discover that the rush hour started earlier still. She stopped for a break further south than

Muriel Spark led an implausible life. Born into straitened circumstances in Edinburgh as the First World War came to an end, she shone at school before moving to one of the least glamorous corners of

A school reunion, a glass of bubbly and two fabulous misfits

Family has never been more important to the Middletons than over the past 12 months as they’ve rallied to support the Princess of Wales after her cancer diagnosis. Kate, 43, emphasised a message of “r