Autumn Street

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Courtesy of Givenchy; Courtesy of Eudon Choi; Courtesy of Proenza Schouler; Courtesy of Prada; Courtesy of Tove; Courtesy of Altuzarra; Courtesy of Christopher Kane; Courtesy of Akris We told each other, promised each other, that the pain and the fear would go away. It was not ever to be true." By the time you realize how much something mattered, time has passed; by the time it stops hurting enough that you can tell about it, first to yourself, and finally to someone else, more time has passed; then, when you sit down to begin the telling, you have to begin this way: "It was a long time ago.”

Born in 1937, that makes Lois Lowry the same era/age as Liz in Autumn Street. The details of the era therefore ring true, from the racial and playground gender segregation to the freedom afforded young children, allowed to enter the woods.Dress offerings for the coming season are nothing short of inspirational. They're unapologetically baroque, and a variety of styles were forecast at the shows. Designs showcased comprised jewel tones, feather adornments and gauzy fabrics in excess, to name but a few of the flourishes designers blessed us with. Styles from Christopher Kane to Chanel took to the runway in elongated proportions, sheer fabrics and partywear-inspired looks to bookmark for (dare I say it) end-of-year celebrations. A few weeks ago, Evelyn (Maureen Lipman) left the cobbles with her daughter Cassie (Claire Sweeney) after she overdosed on drugs and ended up in hospital. We know that Cassie is Tyrone’s (Alan Halsall) biological mother and with both characters set to return soon, Evelyn will have to deal with the small matter of Tyrone learning his mum has been alive this entire time. Could we have another week as deadly as the sinkhole disaster and return of Harvey Gaskell (Will Mellor)? Hollyoaks

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Cometh the hourglass

I lasted a couple of terms in student accommodation, but, like much of my University life, it was a disappointment. I didn’t understand the girls I lived among. I’d been imagining a cross between The Girls of Slender Means and Mallory Towers, but it was just dull. My flatmates were shallow yet poised, and appeared to be effortlessly navigating a path through this new territory, while I floundered, forever caught in the brambles of my own ineptitude.

The huge house with all the rooms and the manicured lawn and staff is the archetypal cold house, where Liz does not feel nurtured or safe. She gets any nurturing she needs from the cook and housekeeper, not from her own mother or grandmother. CHAPTER FOUR Viewers will know that the stalker is actually Lily’s tutor Theo Hawthorne (William Ellis), who has had full access to Stacey’s house for several weeks. He has been very clever about keeping suspicion off of him up to this point, but could he be set to slip up? MORE : 40 EastEnders pictures for next week reveal two residents’ world turned upside down with devastating news

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Not to mention, mother-in-law and deadly enemy Kathy Beale (Gillian Taylforth) and daughter Lucy’s murderer Bobby (Clay Milner Russell) will surely not take too kindly to her return. Can we expect a fair few fights in the not-so-distant future? I read a lot of novels for middle grade readers. I find they are often more well written than adult fiction. I have also noticed many of the books are written about children, but middle grade children wouldn't always understand them. Oh, they would get the gist of the story, but the language/vocabulary and the depth of the relationships between characters wouldn't be fully grasped. I am in no way suggesting authors should "dumb down" their work--it's always good for young readers to stretch (any readers, actually). I know the prose is usually spare, the plot is clearly defined and the relationships seem more real, somehow. Maybe I'm just wondering if these books have wide appeal with the age group they target. Is it something pretty small and specific, in the scheme of things? Or is it deep and meaningful, like this? If so, you’ll probably need to spell it out in a paragraph of two like the one above. In that case, you’ll need either a viewpoint character who is not the young person, or you’ll need your autodiegetic narrator to be much older at time of writing. CHAPTER SIXTEEN As time passes, Elizabeth becomes less fearful and grows to love Autumn Street as she befriends a young boy and finds a second mother in a woman she calls Tattie. Much of the story is devoted to Elizabeth's budding friendship with Charles and the accompanying issue of racial prejudice and bigotry, which the six year old isn't quite able to grasp. Elizabeth often comes across as opinionated and defiant, but underneath it all she is sometimes just fearful or trying to maintain the appearance of keeping up with her older sister. There are periods of sadness in this story, along with births, deaths, good children, evil children, and the ongoing worries related to war. Much of the rest of the story is sweet and poignant though. According to the author's notes at the end of the book, pieces of this story were semi-autobiographical. Between 1981 and 1984 (apart from a year’s reprieve in France, and a term at home when I had Hepatitis B - there’s two other stories right there) I lived within the same square mile of Leeds 6, and gave myself up to the heart of the student Shangri-la that revolved around The Royal Park pub and Maumomiat International Superstore. I lived in a series of houses that have subsequently blurred into one generic student house, with their fan heaters and filthy toilets. I trod water among an ebb and flow of people who had little in common except circumstance. Mostly I kept my eyes on the horizon and trudged dully onwards. My fellow students had lives that were unfathomable to me. They studied subjects I had never heard of, and they threw up with dismal regularity on a Sunday morning in the freezing bathrooms that always seemed to be next to my bedroom.

Chapter nine is a single scene, much shorter than the previous chapter, which is an entire sequence of events leading up to Noah’s death as well as the aftermath. The first person narrator opens with a nostalgic warning to young readers, that you never know the ending of things. This is something we really can’t feel first hand while we’re still young. We know this is a feminine voice because she compares her grandfather’s lawn to a skirt. Liz feels that she was a little responsible for Noah’s death, wishing harm upon him, planning to gently stab him with that knife. Charles and Liz do the only thing they can think of to make amends, and that is to bury the knife the same way Noah was buried. Grandmother’s suggestion is to go to Confession, but Liz has a touch and go relationship with God. Todd Grimshaw may be about to find love again with a new love interest. Teasing what's to come for his character, actor Gareth Pierce said of a possible new romance: "It's been good for him to have some time largely single after breaking up Billy and Paul, but it would be interesting to explore. I think there might be a possible love interest on the horizon for Todd. That would be good new ground for me to explore, too!" Courtney and Aadi rumbled Universal credit and other working-age benefits in England and Wales to increase by 6.7% from April, in line with September's inflation rateLiz confides her fears to her big sister Jess in the dark. In naïve, childlike fashion, Liz thinks that if mother gives birth to a boy then that means father must die in the war, in a causation chain. This is from overhearing adults say that babies born during a war are boys, to serve as replacement for the lost men. Liz also says that she would like to be the boy of the family. She can just wear boy clothes and cut her hair short. By the age of six most children have a strong sense that their gender is immutable, so Liz is an unusually gender fluid six year old girl. In this way, Liz is an unreliable narrator. However, as an older woman narrator she is plenty reliable, because she’s giving the reader enough information to connect the dots for ourselves. The ironic distance between the perception of young Liz and the knowing older Liz provides interest.