When Nick Farrow collects his eight-year-old daughter Milly from her mother’s house, the excitable little girl rushes out to greet him. He scoops her up into a big hug before chatting away with her mum Rae.
You would think they were a model of ‘conscious uncoupling’ — two former spouses making an effort to share parenting responsibilities without the usual acrimony of divorce.
But Rae, 50, and Nick, 54, have never been married. Although Milly is their biological child, they’ve