It’s summer 2008 and Jessica drives two hundred miles back to Manchester for her twenty-year school reunion. She had planned to have her life so much more together by now. She had not expected to be a divorced, exhausted mother of two small children. When she turns up on old friend Sam’s doorstep, her secret crush for most of her teens, she realises how much they have in common. He’s a divorced father of three, and despite the open hostility of Kate, his elder daughter, and the two families living so far apart, she cannot stop her fantasy life fast-forwarding to an idyllic happy ending. Both Jess and Sam have reasons not to delve into the past; particularly the episodes involving James, the larger-than-life leader of their teenage pack, who is a newly elected MP. But, when Sam invites Jess to come to James’s wedding, it’s an invitation she can’t resist…