Anna and the Angel

I’ m getting in touch because Tobias is here. He’ s a fine boy: handsome, kind. You and your husband must be so proud of him. He and Az came for supper and are staying the night… They don’ t actually know I’ m writing to you. I hope you don’ t mind...

And so begins a secretive, tentative and increasingly affectionate correspondence between two strangers. Edna and Anna are both mothers, both lonely in different ways. When Anna’ s son Tobias turns up at Edna’ s house in Newport, en route to so...