The Wish List

[Can the list look like a handwritten list?]Thing to do before I turn thirty:1. Sleep under the stars2. Become an internationally renowned interior designer3. Jump out of a plane4. Find the man I'm going to marry …There are six months left of Emma Reiss's twenties … and she has some unfinished business.Emma and her friends are about to turn thirty, and for Emma it's a defining moment. Defined, that is, by her having achieved none of the things she'd imagined she would.Her career is all wrong, her love life is a mess and that rambling country house she pictured herself in simply never materialised.Moreover, she's never seen the Northern Lights, mastered the guitar, jumped out of a plane or snogged anyone famous - just some of the aspirations declared on a list the girls compiled fifteen years ago.As a seemingly endless round of birthday parties sees Emma hurtle towards her own thirtieth, she sets about addressing these issues. But, as she discovers with hilarious consequences, some of them are trickier to achieve than she'd thought …Biographie de l'auteurJane Costello is the Sunday Times Top Ten best-selling author of six novels including Bridesmaids and All The Single Ladies, which is shortlisted for this year's RNA Romantic Comedy award.Jane was a full-time journalist before she became an author, working on titles including the Liverpool Echo (where she started as a graduate trainee), the Daily Mail, and the Liverpool Daily Post, where she was Editor for almost five years.Jane wrote her first novel, Bridesmaids, while on maternity leave and, as well as becoming a bestseller, it was a Heatseeker number one and nominated for the Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance.She followed that up with The Nearly-Weds, which won the RNA's Romantic Comedy award in 2010. Jane's books have been translated into sixteen languages.She lives with her three young sons and boyfriend Mark in Liverpool, where she is currently working on her seventh book.