If I Had . . . Then: Still Another Life
By (Author) Mari Yamaoka
BookBaby
BookBaby
4th February 2019
United States
General
Fiction
Science fiction: time travel
895.636
Paperback
94
Width 139mm, Height 215mm, Spine 5mm
104g
Mika Yamada is a single never married office worker who lives in a small rental studio. Most of her classmates are married and have children. She often wonders what her life would have been if she had behaved differently 'then.' On her 40th birthday, she received a time machine from her "future relative." She went back to the last date with her college classmate and gave him another chance for his proposal. Then she found herself living as a suburban a housewife. But her husband got killed by a loan shark for her vast shopping debt. So she changed the past back to the original state. It wasn't long before she tried again. She returned to a match-date with a rich man. She found herself in a gorgeous villa as his wife in 2018. However, his head strong live-in mother-in-law controls all household affairs.
Mari Yamaoka is a late newcomer screenwriter, writer, producer and director. She grew up in Japan and went to graduate school in the USA. She started writing scripts in her free time after work and on weekends. She comes up with the visual images of stories in her head. She took film producers and directors courses to make the story into films. She tries to put these visual stories into scripts and novels.