SARAH PENN

As lockdown 3 limps disappointingly across our screens, it’s one sequel too far. We are trapped in Home Alone 3 and wondering why anyone...

Everywhere we are surrounded by powerful myths of motherhood. Lily Potter shielding her baby from the dark lord, Dumbo’s mummy cradling...

"But since my theme will be the good I found there, I mean to speak of the other things I saw.” Dante, Inferno Canto 1 This week the call...

While it might not seem immediately obvious that new mums/dads will suffer more than others, I believe they will especially struggle.

One thing I’ve learned the hard way over the 19 months since my daughter was born is that my thoughts are not necessarily my friends....

It is obvious to the point of boring that toddlers are a nightmare. Shouty, capricious little bullies who devote their new-found physical...

After the storms stopped swirling and the green shoots started to show through soggy ground, the virus came. As the global tumult of air...

January must have been invented by someone with a sick sense of humour. We start the year penniless, plump and probably ill. It’s wet and...

This time last year I was a patient on a mother and baby unit at a psychiatric hospital in the north east. I had suffered badly with...

Stock the medicine cupboard - Christmas provides a cruel combination of germs and reduced opening hours of places where you might buy...