Roberta Garrett

Roberta is a senior lecturer at the University of East London. She has written several short stories and is currently working on a novel based on the life of author Helen Bailey. Roberta lives in South London with her two daughters.

  • So Lucky

    It was one of those aggressively sunny late Summer early Autumn mornings that ought to come with a trigger warning. Does anyone forget those days?  I shudder at the memory of a prefab classroom already chilly in September: fat, stressed-out mums, grubby kids and half the class, including me, wearing clothes that were either stretched…