I really felt for Lydia. I love Christmas. I love everything about it from the food to the decorations to spending time with the people you love. the only thing she wanted was a perfect Christmas. She���s had a messed up childhood and a bunch of crappy Christmas��� but she thought this year could...
But somehow the long silences seemed louder than anything, a jumble of unspoken words surging between them. ‘That must have been hard for you,’ Jed said eventually as they waited for the ferry to travel inch by inch across the river. ‘To leave Mo there. I know you’d only had her for a short time,...
‘Are there mouses in our house?’ Tilly asked him rather anxiously. ‘No, sweetheart,’ she heard Jim say. ‘And not likely to be, either, and Vincent is a very rare breed of mouse-hunting hound, and they are all scared of him.’ ‘Good,’ Tilly said. ‘There are spiders, though,’ Jake said. ‘There’s one...