I am on the platform at St John's Wood Tube station, thoughts racing through my mind. The indicator board says a train is approaching... and I am trying to decide whether to step in front of it.

A mother and daughter open up about teenage mental health issues and what parents can do to cope with it.

I had been avoiding the D-word for some time. Not divorce, nor even death, both of which I have faced up to over the years…but downsizing. It seemed heavily associated with another D-word - defeat.

Book of the Week A Life Reimagined By Jill Halfpenny (Macmillan £22, 320pp) A cold January morning in 2017. Actress Jill Halfpenny is woken by the sounds of her partner, Matt, getting ready to go to the gym. Bleary-eyed, she stumbles out of bed and…

In part three of Lindsay Nicholson's brave and raw memoir Perfect Bound, the former editor of Good Housekeeping magazine reveals how she came terrifyingly close to throwing herself under a Tube train after discovering her husband was having an…

The witching hour is 6pm. That’s when I turn to my most reliable lover, Mr Sauvignon Blanc. Unlike my first husband, he will never die, and unlike my second, he will never cheat on me. Faithful and consistent, he is always there to soften the passage…

The TV is on — but my husband Mark is fiddling with his phone and not watching. Is he texting her? I know he is having an affair because four days ago I saw an email from a woman planning dinner with him. When I confronted him, though he refused to…

The news this week that Tupperware is on the brink of collapse left me feeling strangely conflicted. During my two decades as the editor of Good Housekeeping, the quest for the perfect food storage container was an ever-present fixture in both my…

The vodka shots were lined up in front of the bride-to-be. The assembled hens were consulting their phones for a drinking game called 'Mr & Mrs' where the bride is quizzed on how well she knows the groom, sinking a shot for every answer she gets…

In 2016 the oldest dress in the world was found to be an ancient bundle of rags discovered in an Egyptian tomb more than a century ago; a simple pleated V-neck shirt thought to be a portion of what was once likely a floor-length Tarkhan dress. While…

Yesterday morning I was making breakfast, radio on, when I heard a sound that moved me to my core, a visceral, almost animalistic cry. Before I knew it, I was sobbing my heart out. Goodness knows there has been enough in the news lately to have us…

Five years ago — on Valentine’s Day of all days — I had an appointment with my oncologist. It was good news. After ten years of treatment for breast cancer, he told me that I was — well, not exactly cured, oncologists don’t use that word — but as…

The house in rural Ireland I visited every year when my daughter was small had a range cooker which burned turf from peat bogs. It must have been 50 years old even then, but provided all the heating and hot water for our traditional cottage. It was…

Sometime in the early 2000s, I was sitting in my corner office overlooking London’s Carnaby Street when my PA announced a call from New York. It was midday in London, 7am in New York. This wouldn’t be good news. A very senior executive at our parent…

NO By Lindsay Nicholson At the weekend, I got together with my mother and daughter. We ate in the garden to be Covid-safe, so no roast and healthy veggies for us. Instead, we gorged on our favourite finger-foods: smoked salmon sandwiches, sausage…

Usually it's not difficult to spot a Royal bride on a visit to an urban community centre. She might not be wearing a tiara, but there could well be a hat and clutch, even gloves, and flunkies whose job it is to make sure only a favoured few get close…

There’s a sinister epidemic stalking some of our most beloved female celebrities. Broadcaster Emma Freud, 58, reports being laid so low by it she asked her doctor to test her for dementia; Davina McCall, 52, recently confessed on Loose Women: ‘It…

The teddies did it for me. When she moved out of our family home, my daughter, Hope, then aged 26, placed each of her childhood cuddly toys around the house, as if to watch over me. The bear I had brought home from Harrods on Christmas Eve when she…

Korean show, 'Meeting You', recreated a virtual version of a woman's daughter Mother Jang Ji-sung 'meets' her little girl Nayeon, who died four years ago Two writers who have lost their own daughters have given their verdicts No one could dispute it…

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