You have got a sharp tongue, haven’t you honey? You’ll have to watch it or you’ll go to a lonely spinster’s grave.

I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn’t want to go from the parental to the marital home with nothing in between? ‘An educated woman,’Millie amended. ‘An educated woman,’...

Isn’t that how falling in love so often works? Some stranger appears out of nowhere and becomes a fixed star in your universe.

Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret.

If I was an eccentric old spinster in a Merchant Ivory movie, I’d want to share my lovely cottage with Holly and that’s the truth. I’d do the cooking and leave the decorating to her,...