‘I’m so lucky to be with my role model every day’
Orlanda Bryers, 41, lives in London with her daughter Cassia, four, and her mother Angela, 75.
It’s funny the things you take for granted when you are young, only really appreciating them as you get older. As a child, I never really understood the struggles my mum Angela faced as a single mother.
I was nine years old when Mum set up a business importing and selling pottery from the Middle East. She bought a building in west London and set up a shop, and we moved into the flat above it.
Mum worked tirelessly every day but when she realised we needed more money than she was making, we moved into the shop – back then technically a legal grey area – so she could rent the flat out.
My bedroom was behind the showroom and
