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Zach’s fourth birthday is rapidly approaching (how the heck did that happen?!) and I have been thinking back to his birth and early days. My first health visitor was a man and I did not feel comfortable about discussing contraception, breastfeeding, the sheer exhaustion of having 3 children aged 5 and under. I don’t think […]

      Heather Shaw returns to her family home to help her dad with the neighbour’s luxurious garden while her mother cares for a sick relative. She isn’t prepared for the onslaught of emotions that seeing her first love Lucas will cause. Lucas is in a very unhappy marriage to Elizabeth and is trying […]

Hello and welcome to the #StayClassyMama linky. How is it March already? January draaaaagged but February disapeared in the blink of an eye! I am thrilled to be joined by new regular hosts, Karen from Cats, Kids, Chaos and Sophie from Mummy of a Square Peg! And we have a new badge for 2020, please make […]

February disappeared in the blink of an eye! Family: lots of wider family events including a christening for my cousin’s son, and my niece and nephew stayed over for 2 nights during half term. We had a family photo shoot with Mum and Dad and all their grandchildren which was lovely (here are my three […]

  An orphanage in the 1930s harbours dark secrets. In the present day, Sarah Jennings leaves her husband and buys Cedar Hall, former home of the Burroughs family who ran the orphanage next door. Connie Burroughs lives nearby in a care home, haunted by her father’s past and the lies she tells to herself and […]