A forever work in progress

Despite her diminutive 5'2" frame Louisa Harwell was a force de jour with a seemingly unbreakable spirit. Blessed with a natural charm, it left anyone who came into contact with her feeling that despite everything that's clearly wrong with the world, maybe it wasn't such a bad place after all if people like Louisa existed. She gave people hope. Louisa was the lighthouse that stopped you smashing into the rocks and being sunk on the darkest, stormiest of nights. Usually all it took was her beacon of a smile to make even the most guarded and jaded of people lower their walls and let her into their inner sanctuary. Your life instantly felt better when she was in it. She was the extra spoonful of sugar in your tea making everything feel sweeter. If she had a pound for every time someone asked how tall she was, which is actually to say how short she was, she'd have been a very rich woman. Despite her lack of height Louisa wasn't one of those women who gave the metri...