La vida

“I don’t care anymore!” Emily stormed across the living room, her arms flailing. “

“Try Harder, Dear” “You’ll need to work very hard to fit into our family, sweetheart,” Lydia declared

**Diary Entry – A Surprise at Forty-Seven** *”You’re mad to have a baby at your age!

The tube station exit was jammed with people, everyone hesitating under the relentless downpour outside.

“Who would want someone like you?” “Emily, don’t take my photo in profile. Don’t,”

Emma flew out for her ex-mother-in-law’s anniversary a day earlier than everyone else, and the moment

THE LODGER Edward Wilson, a forty-year-old engineer, left his wife. He gave up the flat and all their

**The Unhinged** “Oliver, let me in. Let me in! I’m your mother! You have to give me money, or

**Diary Entry – 15th June** This afternoon, while the family was away, I found myself moved by an unexpected

Wherever she went, Jenny never failed to turn heads. She dressed in such a way that the entire staff