A special christmas

THERE could be no doubt about it – Julie was a handful. Brought up by her grandparents when her wayward mother took off, Julie seemed to have spent her young life on a mission to prove that she was no

TESS was completely disorientated when she woke up. Her eyes flickered open and she found herself facing an unfamiliar pale green wall. The room, wherever it was, held a faint hint of the new wallpape

Ben hunched over in the cab of the lorry, eyes cast down, earphones firmly in place. He tugged his hoodie further over his face and ramped up his music, trying to drown out his stepdad, along with the

As Paige gently lay Oliver in the cot, he murmured, and she bit her lip. Was he about to wake up? It had taken her over an hour to settle him. Sleepily, he half-opened his blue eyes then closed them.

ALI stepped behind the kitchen curtain to a place from where she could watch the boys in the back garden, but they couldn’t see her. The shrubs were still in full leaf, so that helped. Josh was always

MUMMY says you need a new lady in your life. Do you need a new lady in your life, Grandpa?” Lily lifted her head from the drawing she was doing and looked Joe in the eye. If he’d been drinking coffee