Reinventing Emily Brown by Jodi Gibson EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Jodi Gibson
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Present Day
IF YOU GOOGLE THE PHRASE, ‘things you should have achieved by
the age of 40’, you get two distinct search results.
The first one illustrates the financial milestones you should have
achieved, such as having bought a house, having savings of at least six
months living expenses, having a detailed financial plan for retirement,
having money put away for your children’s future, and having your career
on track.
The second one talks about the wild adventures and life experiences you
should’ve had. Things like showering in a waterfall, spending New Year’s
Eve in New York City, floating in the Dead Sea, and having made peace
with your younger self.
Well, I’m turning thirty-eight this year, and I should be well on the way
to achieving those things but I can tell you I can tick none of those boxes.
Zero. Zilch. Nada. Especially the last one.
My name is Emily Brown, and I’ve successfully failed in almost every
aspect of my life to date. Marriage? Yep. Career? Big fail there.
Motherhood? My fifteen-year-old daughter hates me, so yeah. Friendship?
Travel? Experiences? Fail. Fail. Fail.
I didn’t think I’d be one of those women affected by turning a certain
age. After all, it’s just a number. But as I creep closer to the four-decade
mark, and as more information comes into my stratosphere, the clearer it
becomes that—according to Google at least—I haven’t achieved what I
should have by this age.
Instead of ‘it all’, I’m sitting in my childhood bedroom, being
swallowed by a mountain of throw cushions, and being stared at by a lifesize Justin Timberlake cut-out. I’ve just left my husband. I’m broke,
homeless (not technically, but still), and, as I mentioned, my daughter
Hayley hates me for dragging her to the sleepy hollow of my parent’s house
in Curlew Bay, two hours from Melbourne and the life she loves.
So, how did I get here?
CHAPTER TWO
Two Days Earlier
‘YOU KNOW it would be a help if you could push the trolley for me,’ I
huffed to Hayley dragging behind me, thumbing at her phone as if her life
depended on it.
‘Huh?’ She didn’t look up.
‘Here! Push.’
She expelled a grunt and rolled her eyes as if I’d asked her to push a
semi-trailer up a steep hill with her bare hands.
‘Don’t worry about it.’ I forged forward. You have to pick your battles
with fifteen year olds. And this one wasn’t worth the effort.
Was there anywhere worse than the supermarket? Everyone navigating
wonky-wheeled trolleys down the aisles, yelling into mobile phones,
invading each other’s personal space, grumbling, and rolling their eyes,
wishing they were elsewhere. And let’s not talk about what happened in the
toilet roll aisle. Every time I was here, I berated past Emily for not making
the time to organise online shopping or, at the very least, click and collect.
One day I’d get around to it.
I wrangled the trolley around the end of the one isle and into the next,
proceeding to almost slam it into a display of shampoo on sale as the wonky
front wheel rattled and set off in its own direction.
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