Harlan Covington

When I was twenty-three, my name was Charlotte, and for months I had been weaving my days through the

I realised something was wrong the day I noticed my wife had stopped saying I love you. I can’

Im thirty-nine, and for the first time in my life, I am admitting something that feels almost impossible

All my life, I insisted I didnt need a father. It was easier that way. He left when I was ten years old.

YOU ONLY NEED TO CALL I now pronounce you husband and wife! declared the registrar with an air of ceremony

I married to escape poverty, but now I live in a gilded cage, beautiful but confining. Im thirty-five now.

It was with a strange lightness that I learned my former husband had lost absolutely everything.

Mother-in-law Agatha Mary was a formidable woman, to say the least. Her walk was more a march;

Give me a room, declared the mother-in-law, but the daughter-in-law was already armed with a legal refusal.

My ex hadnt given a penny towards our kids for months, but I caught him splashing out on expensive trainers