**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
The memory of that winter night still haunts me, as if the wind itself were whispering the tale anew.
When the rumble of the Mercedes engine vanished at last among the trees, silence settled over me like
I was fortyfive when I finally married. Evelyn already had three children, her own small fleet of woes
Dear Diary, We were planning to ring in the New Year at your cottage, I announced, holding the spare
20December Im writing this on a cold, damp evening, the kind that makes the Thames fog roll in thick as wool.
You cant keep living like that, Emma. Youre thirty, yet you act like an old woman, her mother said, settling
This is our flat together, Im the landlady too Holly said, Andrews girlfriend, as she entered the hallway.
Dont go whining about someone elses bread, snarled Emma, her face twisted with anger. Your own grandmother