How friendship really changes in your forties

In the summer of 2020, while everyone was baking banana bread and doing Joe Wicks, I was outside the hospital waving to a small forlorn face at the window. She was a cancer patient in a heart ward – everything upside-down and inside-out as the country’s medical professionals scrambled to do the best they could with staff. My mother in law spent too long alone in that room. Too many hours worrying if anyone would...