Amanda will be celebrating the publication of her twenty seventh novel 'Waiting to Begin' on the 8th June 2021. The story alternates between two key events in Bessie's life, one in 1984 on her 16th birthday when her life as she knows it fundamentally changes and another day in 2021 when her deepest secret may come out. Learn what happened to the carefree teenager with her dreams of becoming an Air Hostess and discover the truth about the guilty secret that she was forced to hide from her husband. Will Bessie find herself again, or will she remain shacked by the shame of her past?