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Alone Against It All Emma first saw the lighthouse in a book when she was five. In the picture, it stood

**You Didn’t Earn My Tears** *”Never forget, Evelyn: if it weren’t for me, you’d never have amounted

**A Light Against the Tide** I first saw a lighthouse in a book when I was five. In the picture, it stood

**Monday, 12th June** *”Fancy some sausage or scrambled eggs?”* Charlotte asked.

**Three Women, One Kitchen, and Not a Drop of Peace** Monday was mine, Tuesday for Mum, Wednesday for

Emma sat at the old oak table in the living room, cradling her husband’s pocket watch in her hands.

In a remote corner of northern England, where the fogs of winter shroud the moors and summer brings swarms

Late one evening, the phone rang with an eerie shrill. I lifted the receiver, and a voice, frayed at

Diary Entry, 14th October 1952 Thornwick, a windswept coastal town where the sea bites the cliffs and

Emily quickly surveyed their cottage. Everything seemed in order, the children’s bows were tied neatly