These might be the best four minutes of your week …

Last winter, I read A Tale of Two Cities — in paragraphs and pages, not chapters, after the children went to bed and in the waiting room of the orthodontist and on Saturdays when life would slow to a halt around here. ‘Recalled to life’ was a phrase Dickens used that bounced around in my head for those months as I looked into the eyes of my children and…