What Might Have Been Me

At thirty three, Carla Matthew s life is not where it s supposed to be.When she dropped out of college eleven years ago to stay in New York after a student summer, she imagined she d have books published, a job in NYU, maybe even have started a family of her own. She hadn t thought she d still be working illegally, still be waiting tables, still going to the same bars to see her boyfriend Eddie play in the same gigs. Carla can t quite figure out how she ended up here, where to go next or even who she s supposed to be any more.When her mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer s disease, Carla has to make a decision to leave New York and return to Dublin. But what about Eddie and her life in New York? Will she be able to come back? And more importantly, does she still want to?What Might Have Been Me is a novel about love and loss, courage and responsibility to our family, to the people we love, but most of all to ourselves, to become the person only we know we can be.