“Dreams Before The Start Of Time” by Anne Charnock (2017)

“This year’s crop of apples is so poor that Betty Matheson counts the overnight windfalls when she opens her bedroom shutters each morning.”

The nuclear family still exists for many people, but there are more varieties of family than that, and there always have been. Single parents, gay parents, those who choose to adopt or have no children at all, those made up of friends or grandparents or foster parents – there’s no set way to define a family. As we progress into the future and science marche...