The Sunday read: Fiona Wright on waiting for your parents to die to own a home

Every Sunday, we’ll bring you some of the Guardian’s best stories from the week. Stories we loved, that made us feel happy, sad, or just made us think, read by the people who wrote them. Writer and critic Fiona Wright has often joked with her friends that, in order for them to own homes, they’d have to wait until their parents die. But is there a truth to this dark joke?