The Life I Didn’t Plan

When 38-year-old Beth opens the letter she wrote to her future self when she was 17, it provides a clue for tracking down the father of her child.

Beth has always found comfort in her quiet life. She loves her job as a palliative care nurse and raising her teenage daughter, Maisie. But her world is turned upside down at her high school reunion when she opens a time capsule from her teenage years.

Inside, Beth uncovers a letter from her seventeen-year-old self, a girl bursting with dreams – and blissfully unaware of the curveballs life would soon throw her way, including the unplanned pregnancy that would change everything.

What’s more, the letter contains a clue that could alter everything Beth thought she knew about her past – and her future.

Now Beth is hit hard by the difference between the life she hoped for and the one she’s living. Suddenly, she’s faced with a choice: chase the adventures she once dreamed of, or embrace the new opportunities life presents?

An uplifting, funny and intelligent novel about the many versions of ourselves we could become.