Learning To Love

Sometimes help comes from the most unlikely places …

Living in a small village like Hibberton, it’s expected that your neighbours help you in a time of need.

But when Andrea Kelly’s house burns down, taking all her earthly possessions with it, it’s the distant and aloof Doctor David Adams – the person she would least expect – who opens his door not just to her, but to her three kids and slightly dotty elderly mother as well.

Andrea needs all the help she can get, dealing with aftermath of the fire and in the suspicious absence of her husband, Jonathan.

But, as she gets to know David and his troubled son, Jake, she begins to realise that maybe they need her help as much as she needs theirs…

Written around a short story selected for publication in the Birmingham City University Anthology, ‘Paper and Ink!’