Description: Susan Day always wanted to write. From the age of about seven she wrote – I was mostly inspired by the Famous Five books – and I can’t claim that no one encouraged me, because they did, teachers at school and people in writing groups. But having children, and the need to work for proper money, and my natural laziness, got in the way of literary progress and it was only when I retired from teaching that I began to organise myself into writing every day – or at least on sufficient consecutive days so that I c
The Wilde family is an ordinary one, close and supportive – so what are they to make of their daughter-in-law Niecey, who seems to have no parents, no friends, no past?
Sally-Ann has never been further from home than Scarborough. She is suffocating in her parents’ house, fed up with their old-fashioned rules and bored with her job. Then Terry comes in to the library where she works to look at maps for his “trip around the world”.
As deaths mount during the coronavirus pandemic a retired history teacher reflects on the much greater personal impact of the death of her sister 12 years before.