On her twenty first birthday, the same day as their first wedding anniversary, James presented Emma with a pearl necklace. They were picnicking in Fosters Wood and all around them dappled sunlight played through spring leaves down onto a bright carpet of yellow Celandines.
‘Formed by angels for an angel,’ he said, fastening the pearl necklace’s [...]
The brooch that once slipped unseen from the dress of a young woman, now lies in the palm of an old man’s arthritic hand. Green stones concealed by a layer of earth and grass shine through dirt to wink from their silver setting.
The brooch once lost, now recovered, brings memories into his mind and those [...]
From her bedroom window, two storeys up, Clara had watched children flying, seven houses away. The scene had been idylic; a scene she’d savoured since early June and at night, alone in her room, she plotted and schemed.
Now the time had come and, in the early hours, letting herself out of her room, she crept [...]
