Most of the issues, however, are eternal
'When due to deliver her daughter, 26 years ago, she wrote six weeks’
columns in advance to cover her maternity leave. The morning she was due
to have her baby, her editor called her to ask for an extra piece. “I
said, ‘I’m just about to go and have a caesarean’.” To which he
replied, “It’s just routine surgery.” She wrote it.'
The joys of being a newspaper agony aunt
'Most of the issues, however, are eternal: loneliness, difficulty in forming and sustaining relationships. '
