Be my girlfriend!

Daniel has a proposition after sleeping with escort Nicky

- CLAIRE CRICK

A bookworm falls for a prostitute. If Blanche Hunt were still on the cobbles, she’d say it sounded like the first line of a joke.

But for grieving widower Daniel, this is no laughing matter. His otherwise grey and lonely existence has been peppered with sunshine since he met escort Nicky, and this week he asks her to have a relationship with him. But can he really make a go of things with the woman whom he paid £200 a time to wear his dead wife’s cardie?