La vida
Dear Diary, Today the tension with my motherinlaw reached a new low. She kept muttering that youve become
After twentyone years of marriage, one evening my wife Claire tells me, You have to ask another woman
5 March After my wifes funeral, James drove me out of the little hamlet of Littleford. At the very edge
**Diary Entry 12th April** When Mum and I were walking back from the market, I noticed him first.
Sometimes youll notice that Im getting older, that my hands shake when I fasten my buttons, and that
Emily stepped slowly onto the perfectly trimmed lawn, as if walking onto a stage. Every movement was
Youll send the child to a boarding school, since he isnt my son! Evelyn Hart said, smiling at her daughterinlaw.
I sit in the kitchen of our tiny Lyon flat, clutching a cup of alreadycold tea, tears of fury welling
The milkmaid hurries to the airport its the first time she flies on holiday when a sleek black car brakes
When I am thirteen, I learn to conceal both my hunger and my embarrassment. My family is so strapped








