Was This in the Plan?

What if you thought you had your life mapped out but then things didn’t go according to plan?

In 2004 Stephanie was a career-focused, suburban mother of three, happily married to the love of her life, Andy. In December that year their fourth child was born and life as Steph knew it changed dramatically.

From having to give up a successful career to care for her fragile, life limited daughter, to learning how to cope with the challenges of her sons’ autism diagnoses and the final cruel blow of Andy’s terminal cancer, Steph learned very early on that it’s not the cards you are dealt in life but how you play them.

Far from being a misery memoir, Was this in the Plan? Is a frank, open and no-holds-barred account of how a family was determined not just to survive but to thrive when the odds were against them. It will make you question your own attitude to life and how you choose to respond when unexpected events throw you off course.