**Diary Entry 12th May** Today, I witnessed something that will stay with me forever. An elderly man
“Katherine,” Edward spoke softly when they were alone in the kitchen, “Ive been thinking
Emily stared at the smoldering matches clutched in the woman’s trembling hand. The woman lit them
I remember the way Eleanor stared at the flickering matches clutched in the old woman’
The memory of that winter night still haunts me, as if the wind itself were whispering the tale anew.
Mum turned out to be the odd one out. What’s the flat like? The one on the fourth floor?
When the rumble of the Mercedes engine vanished at last among the trees, silence settled over me like
Mom, are you the spare one? Which flat? The one on the fourth floor? Im the spare, Emma Foster admitted
I was fortyfive when I finally married. Evelyn already had three children, her own small fleet of woes
The Foreign Country Cottage A year ago, the Wilsons bought a country cottage. Having hit his fifties









