Reinvention

Hands up if your life didn’t go the way you planned. Mine certainly didn’t. Nearly ten years ago, I boarded a one-way flight from Johannesburg to London with my husband and our young son. If you’d looked at us from the outside, you might have seen a brave little family chasing a better life. What you wouldn’t have seen is that somewhere between the boarding gate and seatbelt sign, I realised my marriage was over. I remember the thought landing as heavily as the plane itself: