Why i stopped searching for mum

Novelist Amanda Smyth and her partner were aligned on never wanting children, until, at 40, she felt a deep and non-negotiable desire to reverse that decision. She explains how she navigated the path that took her in a new direction

She’d always felt like the odd one out growing up – then Delimar learnt the unbelievable reason why...

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

After meeting Mr Wrong, an extraordinary coincidence led to Katie finding a different kind of love...

I found the missing part of myself 4,000 miles away

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