Browsing: strangers

Anita Thursby had been dreading the gas engineer coming to service her boiler. They would have needed to enter her kitchen, where the window looked into…

To everyone else, it probably looked like a regular summer’s evening. Couples and families enjoying the beer garden, people playing cricket on the green – and…

I can readily confirm Martin Kettle’s points (Need cheering up after a terrible year? I may have just the story you’re looking for, 28 December). I…

We all live in history. A lot of the problems that face us, and the opportunities that present themselves, are defined not by our own choices…

When I was 15, I grew nine inches in nine months. My bones ached at night. I grew out of my clothes at a rapid clip,…

I’ve had more good sex than most people have had hot dinners, so when I found a lump in my breast and knew straight away it…

In 2024, I was unexpectedly diagnosed with leukaemia. I was 34. I had no symptoms (none!) and it came at the worst possible time, although there…