A woman takes a trip back to her home town and has an unexpected encounter with a childhood friend, for whom she was an understudy, forty years earlier.

The meeting exposes long-buried feelings of shame as she remembers the way she behaved the last time they met, but the way forward to a reconciliation seems impossible. The friend is dying,stand in cinderella is a deeply moving story, uplifting and heartbreaking.


stand in cinderella, is part of the Postcards From Midlife series, a collection of engaging and relatable stories of women at the mid point in their lives. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting.