Harlan Covington

“Mum needs a rest”—those words echoed through the years, from the moment our son was born until the very end.

Why bother with a mortgage when you can just wait for Granny to pop her clogs and inherit her flat?

**Diary Entry** I’m a mother to two grown sons. The eldest has been married for years, living in another

**How My Mother-in-Law Went to the Hospital with a Heart Condition and Came Back with a Newborn Baby**

Two years have passed. Not a single word from my daughter since then—she’s erased me from her life.

**The Scruffy Saviour** The rhythmic clatter of the train wheels and the blur of trees outside the window

When I finally found a life of my own, my daughter called me mad and forbade me from seeing my granddaughter.

Two years had passed. Not a single word from my daughter since then—she had erased me from her life.

When I finally found a love life of my own, my daughter called me mad and forbade me from seeing my granddaughter.

Her daughter was about to give birth, yet all she could think about were salons and parties.