When it comes to falling in love, adults and children share a childish belief in fate. It’s what we have in common, that we never quite give up on the fairytale, even those who have learnt through bitter experience to settle for the person who just happened to be hanging around.
Charlotte Morgan was not meditating on any of this when she asked her two young children to choose her a husband. She sat down at the kitchen table with them, signed up to an internet dating site and turned the laptop and the whole project over to then nine-year-old Will and 11-year-old Zoe.
“This,” she said, pointing at the hundreds of hopeful suitors queued up on the screen, “is a daddy shop. Pick one”.