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...What we really want is to support dad through this final stage of his life, surrounded by family and friends.”...
...Over the next few years, hard-up students and artists would drift in and out of the miniature apartments, run by their rarely sighted live-in landlord....
...Her first months back home reminded her of being a child watching films she knew would give her nightmares. “Cop on, Anne Marie,” her parents said. “Time to be normal now.”...
...Madison Marriage And a detail I found moving was that Megan was also really affectionate with her mum. She had never gone through one of those teenage phases of being embarrassed to hug her parents....
...It made me laugh like the drain he says could be unblocked by Tanya Gold’s caustic prose — I’m still emailing it to friends when they complain about some dreary couple of hours spent being harangued by people...
...Instead, after a quarter of a century, he apparently resigned over a minor pay dispute....
...The complete absence of squalor and vulgarity made me feel safe. Although we lived in the next town over, I would ask my parents if we could holiday in Forte dei Marmi....
...The former had little money as a single parent and resorted to food banks. The Duke of Sussex spent most of his life in gilded palaces, being served meals prepared by chefs....
...“I’m hoping that through the things that I want to do outside of gaming — like music and drawing — I can inspire other people to try those things out and get them away from screens for a bit.”...
...Nicola was in a local shop with her friends when she got a phone call from a health worker asking her to describe the most difficult experiences of her life....
...When she was a child during the war, she was sent without her parents to Scotland for three years. For a year, a governess called Miss Bonner tied her hands to the bedpost at night. “It was appalling....
...for “rape of a minor over 15 and sexual harassment”....
...It’s a scene from a movie, really. A tall blonde woman driving a dark red Chevy convertible through the streets of Soho in the late 1960s. Her name is Angela Flowers....
...In my hometown of Brookline, Massachusetts, every Armenian I knew was related to me. As a child, I explained the intricacies of the genocide to my American friends’ parents....
...Since writing my novel, close friends have confided in me about schisms in their own families: between parents and children, in-laws, siblings and cousins....
...of the child being a potential security risk in the future”....
...The two main characters, Gilbert and Hortense, are named after her parents. In a piece for The Guardian, she said: “Small Island was a joy to write and those characters will stay with me forever....
...I had a child who was 11, who had just started at boarding school. I knew we would lose our house and I'd have to take her out of school....
...death of his parents and the hero’s own origin story.”...
...Even so, and despite her volunteering as a teenager for a job at Highgate Cemetery, I think of her work as dominated by memory rather than memorial, and marked by traces of warm life as much as chill death...
...He courted her by betting a dinner date on whether he could find evidence that smoking reduces cancer; to her dismay, he sent her a report from the tobacco lobby....
...He describes his wife of 45 years dying of cancer, and then proving the survival of her spirit by fixing the result of a horse race the next Saturday....
...Under the current arrangements, a child from a disadvantaged background in one school can receive half as much funding as a child in identical circumstances in another school....
...A Strangeness in My Mind, by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Ekin Oklap, Faber, RRP£20/Knopf, RRP$28.95 Through the story of Mevlut Karatas, who migrates from Anatolia to Istanbul as a child and grows up to...
...A Spool of Blue Thread, by Anne Tyler, Chatto & Windus, RRP£18.99/Knopf, RRP$25.95 Tyler returns to her usual Baltimore milieu for her 20th novel, another insightful study of family life....
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