There are six months left of Emma Reiss's twenties ... and she has some unfinished business. 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 she compiled fifteen years ago. 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 she compiled fifteen years ago. So, as Emma hurtles towards her thirtieth birthday, she sets about addressing these issues. But, as she discovers with hilarious consequences, some of them are trickier to achieve than she'd thought ...