Now or Never aka Melanie’s Big Adventure

Mela is going on a trip. Starting at the mighty Victoria Falls, followed by a Big Five safari staying in a luxury lodge, she’ll finish up at beautiful Cape Town.

This is a trip she’s wanted to do for a long, long time. And now is the right time to finally do it – return to Cape Town and her memories of Africa, and find a way to move on from her recent setback.

She’s delighted when her best friend and original travelling buddy Cara comes along too, taking a break from the endless packing and arrangements in Cape Town. What Mela’s mother can’t understand is why her husband Adam isn’t going with her – and why Mela even feels the need to do this sort of thing in her 40s…

I'm excited to write this story over the next year, and see if this is The One - which gets published, and sets me on the track of the published, full-time writerly life..!