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I became obsessed during lockdown with the thought that David might die and leave me alone – it was unbearable, agonisingly so,” says Polly Samson, youthfully elegant at 62, intensely ...

Five readings taken from Polly Samson's short story collection, each linked to the others by themes of imperfection, compromise and the joy of accepting life as it is ...

His wife, the novelist Polly Samson, 40, is cooking meringues. One-year-old Romany is trying to climb up her leg. Two older boys, Joe, eight, and Gabriel, five, are having a fight with the cooking ...