The Cost Of Loss

I’ve just done my tax return. You wouldn’t expect a tax return to be a trigger for grief but it was. Being a hapless artist, I’m not finely attuned to financial cycles but I realised today that I lost my boyfriend right at the end of the last tax year. So as I trawled through all of the papers that I’d stuffed in boxes (mostly unopened envelopes), trying to remember what I’d earned and when, I had a trip down the fiscal memory lane of my first year of agonising grie