dealing with loss and heartache doesn't make you stronger. It only makes people think you are.

I knew absolutely nothing about bondage. I'd always presumed it was just an inventive way of keeping your partner from going home.

I speak as your native guide to the mysterious tribe called the English. Dress code is everything. You can be a card-carrying Nazi, you can pay gigolos to eat gnocchi out of your navel and you won't be pilloried -- as long as you never, ever wear linen with tweed.

Men think monogamy is something you make dining tables out of.

Every woman wants to be wanted - just not by the entire Metropolitan police force.

As a breastfeeding mother you are basically just meals on heels.

Love is like a tide. When it's in, everything looks beautiful and inviting. Only when love recedes can you see the debris beneath the surface - the old bottles, the rusty prams, the sewage pipes, the bloated cats and dogs weighted down to drown. The man I had once loved so passionately I now saw as weak, gutted like a fish.