Gin & Other Misadventures

She didn't want attention.
She just wanted people to behave on a plane.
Marie Hayward is fifty-six, sleep-deprived, and dangerously close to her tolerance limit for humanity. All she wants is a quiet flight, a drink on arrival, and a holiday with her sister Jess.
What she gets instead is a plane full of bad manners, airborne nonsense, and one very public moment where Marie - quite spectacularly - says what everyone else is thinking.
Unfortunately, Jess films it.
By the time they land, Marie's life has shifted in ways she absolutely did not sign up for. Suddenly she's dealing with strangers who know her face, a family group chat in meltdown, and a world that seems oddly eager to hear more from a woman who is simply... done.
But fame, even the accidental kind, has a way of stirring things up. Old routines feel different. Quiet truths get louder. And Marie starts to wonder whether this unexpected spotlight is a disaster...
...or the beginning of something she didn't know she needed.
Warm, sharp, and hilariously relatable, Gin & Other Misadventures is a story about sisters, midlife surprises, saying the wrong thing at exactly the right time, and what happens when an ordinary woman stops swallowing her opinions - and the world actually listens.