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They came while we were asleep. Eleanor Whitaker awoke to a sound she couldn’t place at first—a faint

You didn’t even say thank you. “Mum, now don’t start again!” Oliver snapped irritably

“You didn’t even say thank you,” Margaret began. “Mum, don’t start that again!

**Diary Entry** I told everything to Charles. Every word that left my lips felt foreign, as though it

**June 12th** “I don’t need a daughter like you!” Mum screamed, shaking a crumpled page.

The front door clicked shut, swallowing Margaret Wilson into the familiar silence of her two-bedroom flat.

On the corner of High Street, in York, there stood a mannequin in the window of a clothing shop.

The dinner ended with divorce. Thomas had invited Sophie over later, and Emma burst out. “

The post thumped into the box. Patricia Mitchell waved her phone excitedly. “Margaret, you simply must see!

It was the kind of day that lingers in your bones. The air hummed with the fragrance of roses and lavender