Blogs in October 2025

The Year That Changed Us 25th October 2025

As young women, Lise and Emma had the kind of friendship people dream about. While Lise’s own family was distant and disengaged, Emma’s was welcoming and warm, and for the first twenty-six years of their life, growing up together...

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Shadows in the Spring 6th May 2025

Her head buzzed with long-forgotten memories, fleeting images that flickered in and out of her mind. Nothing tangible, and not a single one fully formed, but teasing and tantalising, as if they wanted to surface but didn’t know how....

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A Child Far From Home 10th April 2025

England 1939. I desperately push my way through the crowded platform and try to find my darling daughter’s face in the fogged-up windows. As the train pulls away I frantically wave and force a smile. I’m sending her away...

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Christmas off Script 5th October 2024

Best friends Leo Foxbrooke and Ella Chamberlain love Christmas and each other — in a strictly platonic way, of course. The only secret they’ve ever kept from each other is a mutual crush they had when teenagers. But the...

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Unsung Women in Somerset (Junior Edition) 10th September 2024

What have women in Somerset got up to over the years? Oh, nothing much. Apart from… – worshipping goddesses – travelling the world – burning stuff – arguing with the queen over swans – writing mega-popular books – fighting...

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