Geraldine Brooks met her husband, Tony Horwitz, at journalism school in New York. It was 1982, they were both in their 20s. In the years that followed, they shared an award for their coverage of the Gulf War, and later, two sons. He won a Pulitzer for his reporting, she for her debut novel. Brooks…
People aged 50 and over in England have greater life satisfaction and improved wellbeing than before the Covid pandemic, although depression is more common, researchers have concluded in a study. The research project involved a nationally representative group of people aged 50 and older, however respondents to a Guardian callout painted a more complex picture….
I am in my 30s and the middle child of three sisters. We don’t see one another that often as we live across the UK, but try to speak regularly and meet up a few times a year. I have always seen my older sister as more of a mum figure as our mum was…
Kirk Haworth, the owner and head chef of the east London restaurant Plates, hates the word vegan. “At least seeing the word on a menu,” he says. “Plant-based cooking is not a trend. Not for me, anyway. I’ve been doing it for eight years and it’s just in my soul now.” And yet this week,…
My mother, Joan Marks, who has died aged 95, moved from Australia to the UK with her young family in 1970, bucking the emigration trends of the time and spending most of the rest of her life in Surrey. In England she continued her work as a housewife and was also of great support to…
Winter swimming isn’t for everyone: you often spend more time preparing, packing and changing than you do in the water. But if you do take the plunge, the piercing cold gives way to a joy that inspires you to return to the water time and time again. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn…