In thrall to the sea

The September sun was still warm when I reached the familiar stretch of beach. I glanced up at a messy display of cotton-wool clouds in the sky. They were bobbing randomly overhead and I almost felt I

When people talk about soulmates, most mean their partners. Not me. My sister, Sarah, was my soulmate. Although we had three half-sisters, Paula, Sharon and Debbie, from my parents’ previous relations

ISOBEL could tell her six-year-old pupil Angela hadn’t been practising. Having clomped her way through her scales, she was stumbling painfully through her pieces. Isobel tried to think of some encoura

At 94, my gran was the hear t of our family. But hours after chatting to her, I got a shocking phone call and my world crumbled. By Brian Kirk, 50

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