As Old Flo sat there, watching and listening, she became easily convinced of several important observations. The first was that her daughter-in-law seemed uncharacteristically distracted, even remote, from the events around her. Secondly, she underst...
It transpires that the dead man has lived a fraught, haphazard and very selfish life, one punctuated at regular intervals by the traumatic fall-out of the many calamities he has visited upon those around him. Friends or foes, wives, casual acquaintan...
Hikers toiling up the stony lane would stop for a breather and gaze enviously at the big house and the busy farm next door. They’d try to imagine that rural idyll, living on a Lakeland hill in carefree abandon, miles from anywhere.
But wit...
A casual encounter in Cape Town spawns a life-long love affair from within the wrecked social experiment that is Apartheid South Africa. The adventure takes the young lovers to the ‘Garden of England’ and the great City of London, where r...