Such was the emphasis on other aspects of our friendship, we had reached this juncture knowing almost nothing of each other’s early lives. Assuming, of course, I hadn’t shared my life story with him when we’d first met years ago. (It seemed unlikely.) ‘I’m not sure there’s much to tell,’ I said, ...
It could neither bring back the Woodhalls nor make any difference to Arthur and me, since he had finished with me long before she’d made a public enemy of me. No amount of misery heaped on me by her and her colleagues could make me feel worse than I had in the car park that day at the coroner’s c...
I didn’t like to dwell on what had caused it, but as I shuffled to the kitchen for coffee, I considered giving the lido a miss that day. No firm plan had been made with Lara, so I wouldn’t be letting her down. To cheer myself up, I phoned Molly. Mobile signal being uncertain at the Stoneborough h...