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  1. Rec 8

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    In which Mr Farnon finds himself at his wits end and employs a housekeeper. This is the story of their first meeting, and the months thereafter.

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    01 Feb 2026

  2. Rec 13

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    A little light conversation.

     

    "You don't talk about the war."

     

    "One doesn't, as a rule."

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    29 Jan 2026

  3. Rec 5

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    He was ranting about some farmer he’d been out to see, he was going on and on about how the farmer had been incompetent and wasted his time. He’d then reached past Audrey to get the whiskey, but she didn’t see what he was doing, he moved so quickly, and for a moment she was suddenly back in the marriage she’d run away from.

    She flinched. And everything stopped.

    Siegfried stood still, his hands dropping to his side, his words failing him for a moment.

    She looked at him, realising what she’d done.

    ‘Mrs Hall, I wasn’t going to…’ he couldn’t finish his sentence, his eyes meeting hers, as though he was putting it all together in his head. And she couldn't bear it.

     

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    A look into Audrey's life before Skeldale, her marriage, leaving it and then coming to Skeldale and meeting Siegfried and the others, inspired by the Noah Kahan song 'pain is cold water'

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    28 Jan 2026

  4. Rec 10

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    How quickly the memories came back. Listening to the Liebestod over and over again with them, and the newborn Tristan looking just like a newborn kitten. The fresh snowfall that night. Siegfried ran to send a telegram to Evelyn, who was away at secretarial school. BABY BROTHER BORN STOP EVERYONE HEALTHY STOP HE IS CALLED TRISTAN STOP. Why on earth had he sent a telegram to a woman who wasn’t yet his wife, announcing the birth of a child that wasn’t his? What an enormous waste of money.

     

    The first eighteen years of Siegfried and Tristan trying, somehow, to be brothers.

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    10 Jan 2026

  5. Rec 81

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    It begins with a diary, like all things with Daddy do.

    (In which Trucy discovers Phoenix’s diary, reads it, and learns a whole lot of miserable dad-lore in the process.)

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    06 Dec 2025