If I'm going to tell this story properly, then I have to start with the first serious relationship. The one that gave me the best title I've ever had. Mum. I was eighteen. Which obviously meant I knew absolutely everything about life. Because don't we all at eighteen? I met a guy. We fell in love. Or at least, we fell into what I understood love to be at that age. I was young. He was young. And at that age you don't necessarily think about where a relationship is going in ten

I'd left my husband. I'd left the marital home. But that didn't mean fifteen years had suddenly disappeared. My husband and I were still talking. Still trying to make sense of what had happened. Still discussing whether there was anything left to save. We'd even talked about still going on the family holiday together. Emotionally, I was all over the fucking place. But practically? I needed somewhere to live. Eventually, I was offered temporary accommodation. And when I told m