Done before but it’s fun. So guess the book and the mil

[Seasawride]

Help! I have one dd. My mil has lived with us since we have been married.

She is a very strong woman and overruled me on everything. She sends me to bed if I sneeze.

When dd was 2 dh pissed off capturing butterflies in Africa and I havnt heard off him for years. Bastard. So mil got friendly with a wierd lady next door. She has big hair coils round her ears, writes books and has lots of kids.

I am concerned she is also involved in modern slavery as she has a woman living with her called Anna who does everything.

Anyway mil and this wierd Jo woman have colluded to send dd to a boarding school.

Aibu to just want to move away with dd. Start again and have some fun?

Guess the book and keep going.

PaintedHorizons

The Go-Between

My husband and I have recently moved to a new village. It's lovely, lots of characters and very traditional. It even has the old stocks!

My husband is connected to the church so I'm used to him being out all hours helping people. So when someone was widowed it was no surprise that he went to see her. He has always been devoted to me so I had no fears.

He has just confessed that he had a fling with the widow. He says it was a one off and I believe him. I think. But he had dropped the bombshell that she is pregnant.

I am devastated. I have always wanted children and can't have them (I'm a doctor so I know everything that can be done and have had no luck). The bitch widow already has three kids and doesn't know how she is going to manage. My not-so-DH would be devastated if she had an abortion.

How to I move forward with this?

Oh. We all came at once.

Always the nicest way.:o

I work in a low paid job even though I have a genius level IQ. I keep myself busy trying to recreate this amazing old scent from a bottle I’ve had forever.

Some wag keeps leaving root vegetables on my doorstep, not sure if it’s related. Oh and my occasional boyfriend is really close to a major scientific breakthrough and is friends with a reeeeally old guy.

ParisNext, is it Topsy and Tim?

echt

I love The Go-between, book and film.

Baffled by all the latest ones.

TokenBritPoshOfCourse- Yes! Well done. Topsy and Tim. I am worried about how much I enjoyed writing this instead of doing jobs in the house!!

I live quite a humdrum life in a small town. I live with my older sister and I don't like to gossip but frankly there's not much else to do. Money is tight and it's so hard keeping up one's standing in society. Maybe this new-fangled railway thing will bring some changes.

Yes - The Go Between

I've read Token Brits book I know it!

Is it The Lighthouse?

Nope. Sorry!

Cranford, glamorous?

Token, going purely on the scent clue, is it Perfume? I've not read it but have heard of it.

No.

There’s also this weird stinky guy involved, I’m not entirely sure but I think his feet are a bit misshapen, you could say cloven.

No it's not. Hey ho.

I am a middle aged divorcee who has led a fairly mundane life though I am not discontented

Recently I discovered that my ex girlfriends mother bequeathed me £500

I have no idea why, but my ex girlfriend seems to think I should know exactly why and I've got blood on my hands

AIBU to think she's a CF and they are all jolly odd ?

Cranford, glamorous?
Yes. I love that book even though hardly anything happens.

Got me stumped.
(Read "Perfume" and for me it's right up there with Books I wish I never opened...).

Yes it's from the book of Ruth in the Bible. Quite a racy little book.

I am the Deputy Head of a really good girls' school in South London. I've been offered a headship. No one can believe I am even considering taking it. In London I have a steady relationship with a rising star in the Labour Party and I love the cultural life. I'd be turning my back on all that for a failing school in a decaying seaside town. I like a challenge, though, and I think I can turn it round. What should I do?

The Sense of an Ending MrStark?

I think mine are both a bit niche so far .

I’ve got another in a similar vein.

I’m part of a big family, six siblings. We all perform a function, some more eagerly than others. Our eldest sister is everyone’s favourite but almost no one looks forward to her visiting, not the second time at least. One of my brothers is a bit of a hippy creative type who went of grid ages ago. People always assume I’ll be a bit dreamy but actually I’m a miserable grump and I expect my firm adherence to rules will eventually be my undoing, also the fact I fell out with two of my siblings a long time ago and they are not the type to be slighted.

Still pondering MipMipMip's.

Token’s is really annoying me - it sounds soooooooo familiar.

I love my job - perhaps too much? My ex-colleague teased me sometimes about having no feelings. I thought i wouldn’t miss her at all when she went to work elsewhere but my new employer is insisting I take a holiday and I wonder whether I should go to look her up after all this time? I still refuse to believe that my old employer was up to anything unsavoury with those European friends of his.

Yes!

My children think I'm dead and that I drowned in a nearby lake - the only person who knows this is a lie is an elderly nun.

In the meantime I'm living it up in London with my lover but things haven't turned out as I hoped

WIBU to pose as my own school friend and start a correspondence with my DD?

What could possibly go wrong?

Back-tracking to see what is unsolved:

My SIL and her family died in tragic circumstances after their young daughter was kidnapped. My MIL has organized some kind of travel adventure holiday with some old friends to make us all feel better and my DW, who is usually quite timid, wants us both to go along.

Nope, baffled.