Perhaps you've been reading from day one. Perhaps you've only just discovered one of my chapters. The Reading Room is where you dip in, dip out or binge read, fall into a story and stay a while. Either way, I am happy to have you here.

I snap my fruit bowl shut and tuck it back in the fridge next to my Le Creuset flask of pasta he made with all the love. I see all his personal touches. A little like having my own personal concierge, but for my heart. I smile and then follow Noemie out the office doors.

Mrs Nadler had long hung up. But I carried on reading through the cover changes. The earlier telephone conversation drawing a small...