Each tiny little shard of glass glinted beautifully on her dark marble worktop as the evening sunlight faded. Her grandmother’s heirloom was truly destroyed. She looked at her paltry hands. The shaking was getting worse. Over the last few weeks remnants of little accidents around the house were building up.

Nisha Patel is a mum, accountant, and chocolate addict. She caught the writing bug over ten years ago while on maternity leave and now squeezes it in between parenting and accounting.