Dole – Part 3
There was a brief but noisy discussion about the weekly signing on arrangement and another member of staff appeared. Unlike her colleague she preferred to stand rather than sitting down, looming over the Mother.“Is there a problem,…
Dole Part 2
For the next 45 minutes the Mother went through every drawer, box and file looking for it. She found the kids’ birth certificates, a letter from an ex-boyfriend, even an unspent Homebase voucher, but no passport. Another…
Dole – part one
On the day the Mother turned 18, while she was still at college, something extraordinary happened, something that would change her life, albeit in a fairly mediocre way. On that fateful day she took her first step…