AC: But your dad was a high-ranking intelligence guy. You had grown up knowing what that kind of life is... It is really, really, really rare of me to put down a book without finishing it. And if you'd tell me one of them would be by Adele Parks, I'd have laughed at you. Human beings have almost always existed in societies with high fertility and high mortality. We grew up surrounded by brothers and sisters, cousins, aunts and uncles, and surrounded by death. Now we grow up in small and often fractured family units, without much wider family, but with a generational stretch as increasing longevity means our parents, grandparents, even great-grandparents are a part of our lives far longer than is ‘natural’.

It reveals that during the Covid crisis, people with mental health problems faced a much higher risk of financial hardship compared to the wider population.

RS: It was like a monastery. There were lots of people there, but you had to maintain total silence and meditate for 14 hours a day. Three times more likely to have fallen into problem debt than the wider population (15% compared to 4%). Dean is very 2-dimensional - all rugged misunderstood hunk, afraid to allow himself to love, yadayadayada... Can you guess what happens when they meet - yes, his barriers dissolve, and he starts blubbering about his cruel youth. *Yawn* More likely to have had zero savings to help them cope with emergencies. 1 in 4 people with mental health problems say they have no savings that they could use in emergencies (compared to 18% of the wider population), and nearly half (46%) say they can’t afford to save money regularly.

California Admission Day September 9, 1850". CA.gov. California Department of Parks and Recreation.Charmin’ I thought. Mind you, Hornby and me couldn’t even persuade the toilet cleaner to take it off our hands.