Faith didn’t want to go. She hadn’t seen him since he had come home, she had deliberately stayed well away from the house. ‘I don’t think I can bear to be in the same room,’ she told her mother. ‘You only have to be polite to him for an hour or two, Faith,’ her mother said. ‘It won’t kill you.’ F...
The service was held in St Oswald’s in Church Street in the middle of the small city. From outside, you could see the cathedral in the background. Gil felt that his father would have been better pleased if the service had been held there, but Helen’s parents seemed determined that William should ...
She kept telling herself that she would do it the next week and then the next. She did the shopping for Daisy, taking the train into Alnwick, and it was there one Friday morning in the local butcher’s that she heard the familiar sounds of a Deerness Law accent, that soft, broad and to her somehow...