Cosmo Lit Pick

Reviewed by Cecilia Rotella

Instructions on how to live someone else’s life, by Mil Millington

How would you feel if one day you woke up to find yourself in bed with a stranger? OK, maybe after a night of too many margaritas, but what if this person turns out to be a husband or wife that you had been married to for 14 years... and you have no memory of it all – because it’s not actually your life! Chris has this problem. He went to bed as a 25-year-old in 1988, after a drunken party with his mates and girlfriend to celebrate his decision to quit his crappy job and embrace all the possibilities his life could lead him...

... But woke up as a 43-year-old in 2006 with a massive hangover... and a life he can’t recognise and never in a million years could have imagined at all! Now Chris has to take a crash course in his own life and try to keep one step ahead of everyone else - and work out how to get his life back!

Mil Millington, author of Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About spins a lovely little tale about how sometimes things never happen in life the way you plan, but that it’s never too late to change.