Jamie Fewery

office looked exactly as Dan had thought it might. All glass panels, metal beams and revolving doors swallowing up and spitting out a parade of professional-looking

it was simply the supreme discomfort of a man who was just not used to being in their sort of environment.

And yet here she was, opening the door to the most vulnerable hours of her life and giving him unprecedented access to the interior, domestic details of her marriage, her family and the fractures, cracks and dents across it all.

Both of them smiling in a way that betrayed a certain confidence about how they’d weather the coming years.

Both of them smiling in a way that betrayed a certain confidence about how they’d weather the coming years.

Mediation sounded kinder, less stressful than a full-blown, acrimonious courtroom battle of lawyers.

over the last few months, with all the irretrievable insults thrown back and forth, along with a few plates.

Mediation is not about blame. Or scoring points off of one another for the things you each believe that the other did wrong. We’ll explore the past. But our focus is on the future only, and ensuring that we come to an understanding that is mutual, kind and created by you, not enforced on you

waiting required the kind of patience and ability to compartmentalise that he simply didn’t have.

She had tied a rope around the knowledge that tomorrow would bring a hangover, a flight and childcare, then attached it to a stone and dropped it to the bottom of the ocean.