First Person

Fiction

36

Things to do before I turn thirty:
1. Sleep under the stars
2. Become an internationally renowned interior designer
3. Jump out of a plane
4. Find the man I’m going to marry...
There are six months left of Emma Reiss’s twenties...and she has some unfinished business. Her career is all wrong, her love life is a mess and that rambling country house she pictured herself in simply never materialised. Moreover, she’s never seen the Northern Lights, mastered the guitar, jumped out of a plane or snogged anyone famous - just some of the aspirations declared on a list she compiled 15 years ago. As a seemingly endless round of birthday parties sees Emma hurtle towards her own thirtieth, she sets about addressing these issues. But, as she discovers with hilarious consequences, some of them are trickier to achieve than she’d thought...

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2018-06-26 18:05:07