Life Without ChildrenBy: Roddy Doyle Love and marriage, children and family, death and grief. Life touches everyone the same, but living under lockdown? It changes us alone. A man abroad wanders the stag and hen strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted nurse struggles to let go, having lost a much loved patient in isolation. A middle aged son, barred from his mother's funeral, wakes to an oncoming hangover