A seven-figure salary, two homes, a loving husband…then a new baby – guess what happened next?

This story is quite harrowing in that it tells the story of the life that many of us wish we had – the high salary that means we don’t have to bemoan how expensive nursery fees are (or the fact that once the mortgage comes out, too, there’s hardly anything left to buy a ?1 lipgloss in Primark!). But it just goes to show that with all that seemingly glittering lifestyle, sometimes we can bite off far more than we can chew – and we just need to be honest with ourselves about what truly is important to us.

Aifric Campbell was used to success. So when she was made managing director on the trading floor of investment bank Morgan Stanley – the first woman to be appointed to that role – she didn’t hesitate, even though her baby was just two weeks old.

But her decision almost destroyed her. Here Aifric, 48, who lives in Sussex with her husband Ian, 50, and their 11-year-old son, Oscar,? how spectacular failure forced her to rebuild her life.
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