Emma Reynolds knows what she wants: ace year 12, get into the Victorian College of the Arts then join a dance company and become a professional dancer like her Mum. It’s the beginning of the year and Emma has her last year of school and her future mapped out, with the opinion that nothing will get in her way. When her long time crush Daniel finally notices her, Emma thinks her life can’t get any better but already her perfectly planned year is falling apart. She starts her first job teaching dance where she meets Riley, an arrogant circus performer student who always seems to be in the right place at the right time. Emma is on track to making her dreams a reality, until an event changes her and those around her lives forever. Nothing will ever be the same and she questions everything she thought she wanted. With family pressure to be the best, torn between two boys who couldn’t be more different and a future very different from the one she had hoped for, what and who will she choose? Sometimes, the best laid plans, are not the best plans for you.
Author
Clare Griffin is a best-selling and award winning freelance writer, author and playwright, who will start conversations with “I love your shoes!” – often to complete strangers. Clare writes about strong willed women, past and present, in contemporary and historical fiction. With a love for vintage fashion, her characters are normally quite well dressed at some stage of their journey. In 2016 she published her debut novel Tumble which became an Amazon best seller. The first chapter won the Freshly Squeezed C1 Blitz and became part of an anthology. In 2017 her 10 minute play The Karma Fairy was runner up People’s Choice Award as part of Gemco Players Take Ten Festival. Clare has also published several novellas and short stories such as Happily, Ever After? and The Hunt for Scarlett O’Hara a short story about the night Hollywood found its Scarlett. In 2020 she curated the historical anthology Easter Promises with four other historical fiction authors and in 2021 was longlisted for the Adaptable prize. Clare lives in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne in a house full of men in the form of her husband, two sons and a retired greyhound called Gary.
