Blogs in March 2022

In the Heart of the Garden 12th March 2022

Iris Bagshott strolls down the paths of her ancient garden, close to Lichfield in the heart of England, wondering if it is time to sell her house and land for development. She is unaware that around every corner myriad...

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The Cotton Town Girls 12th March 2022

Sophia Seddon and Grace Thompson are poles apart – the one a member of the notorious Seddons of Plover Street, the other the vicar’s spoilt only child. But their childhood friendship is revived when they find themselves fighting a...

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Sorrow and Bliss 9th March 2022

Everyone tells Martha Friel she is clever and beautiful, a brilliant writer who has been loved every day of her adult life by one man, her husband Patrick. A gift, her mother once said, not everybody gets. So why...

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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian 9th March 2022

‘Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water,...

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Salt Lick 8th March 2022

Britain is awash, the sea creeps into the land, brambles and forest swamp derelict towns. Food production has moved overseas and people are forced to move to the cities for work. The countryside is empty. A chorus, the herd...

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