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My biggest regret

Writers on what they wish they could change

28 March 2023

  • ‘I had given myself no choice but to leave, and fast, having burned down a relationship and a job’ … Megan Nolan.

    My biggest regret: was it a mistake to leave Ireland?

    The longer I stay away, the less I feel completely truthful when I tell people I’m Irish – although I’m certainly nothing else

27 March 2023

  • Joe Dunthorne as a young man in Australia.

    My biggest regret: I was in a car crash – and I wasn’t wearing a seatbelt

    My face got mashed into the plastic headrest in front of me. While the physical wounds healed, I was left with weird, intrusive thoughts

24 March 2023

  • ‘Never, the article said, never wear navy with black’ … Hollie McNish in navy and black.

    My biggest regret: Why did I listen to all those oppressive, terrible fashion rules?

    I will never recover the years spent worrying about my outfits while I was dancing – or about whether my body was the right shape while having sex

23 March 2023

  • ‘With a heavy heart, we gave the tickets away – we’d see Prince some other time’ … Mike Gayle and his wife.

    My biggest regret: I had tickets to a secret Prince gig – but was too tired to go

    My wife and I had young kids, and we would have had to consume our body weight in Red Bull to stay awake. I still wish we had

22 March 2023

  • ‘I wish I’d let myself be photographed more during my younger years’ … Saima Mir.

    My biggest regret: Why did I avoid the camera so much when I was young?

  • ‘Confronted with our friends’ pain, illness and grief, we can feel scared’ … Emma Beddington with her sons.

    My biggest regret: I knew my friend was dying – and I didn’t contact her

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