Emma Robinson

It's just past ten o'clock on a cold Friday evening when Rebecca and Jack's doorbell rings. Outside, a woman holds the hand of a shivering, blue-eyed, four-year-old girl who she claims is Jack's daughter. Rebecca's world stops. How could Jack not have known his ex-girlfriend Cara was pregnant? Becoming parents has never been part of their life plan. But Cara...

It's in that moment, I realise - I have nowhere to turn. If my precious daughters and I are going to have a roof over our heads, we have to return to my childhood home. The one I've not felt welcome in since my father died. The one where the woman who destroyed our family still lives... Today marks the...