“I continued past the door of the Pink Room to look round her door. She was propped on her pillows with The Sentimental Bloke and Persuasion beside her on the covers and a torrid bodice-ripper in her hands. Nice Marty… — Danielle Hawkins Copy Share Image
“I briefly considered bashing her to death with the soup ladle before reluctantly deciding that, as satisfying as that would be, it probably wasn't… — Danielle Hawkins Copy Share Image
“He doesn't realise how much it hurts me when he's so curt," his mother said sorrowfully. "He doesn't mean it," I said. "It's just… — Danielle Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Percy had shrunk to the size of a chihuahua and was perched on the kitchen table watching me make a bacon and egg pie.… — Danielle Hawkins Copy Share Image
“I picked her up and carried her down the hall to the bathroom, just a pitiful skeleton with skin stretched over the top and… — Danielle Hawkins Copy Share Image
“I woke up horribly early the next morning to the sound of some sadistic bastard operating an electric hedge-trimmer just outside the window. I… — Danielle Hawkins Copy Share Image
“The words "when you're better" hung between us like smoke from a snuffed candle - what if she wasn't going to get better ?… — Danielle Hawkins Copy Share Image
“I continued past the door of the Pink Room to look round her door. She was propped on her pillows with The Sentimental Bloke… — Danielle Hawkins Copy Share Image
“He really is a first-class waste of space, isn't he ?" "Thank you" I said. It's nice when the people you love share your… — Danielle Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Aunty Rose's scones were small windowless buildings - if you could manage to worry one down it sat and sulked at the bottom of… — Danielle Hawkins Copy Share Image
“We didn't, after all, sing "Another One Bites The Dust" as the coffin was carried out; Hazel and the vicar had settled instead on… — Danielle Hawkins Copy Share Image
