Iona Iverson's rules for commuting
(2022)

Fiction

Large Type

Call Numbers:
LARGE TYPE/FICTION/POOLEY,C

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
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Details

PUBLISHED
Waterville, Maine : Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2022
EDITION
Large print edition
DESCRIPTION

495 pages (large print) ; 23 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9798885780797, 888578079G :, 9798885780797
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"First published in hardcover in Great Britain as The People on Platform 5 by Bantam Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House, Ltd., London, in 2022." -- title verso

"Every day Iona, a larger-than-life magazine advice columnist, travels the ten stops from Hampton Court to Waterloo Station by train, accompanied by her dog, Lulu. Every day she sees the same people, whom she knows only by nickname: Impossibly-Pretty-Bookworm and Terribly-Lonely-Teenager. Of course, they never speak. Seasoned commuters never do. Then one morning, the man she calls Smart-But-Sexist-Manspreader chokes on a grape right in front of her. He'd have died were it not for the timely intervention of Sanjay, a nurse, who gives him the Heimlich maneuver. This single event starts a chain reaction, and an eclectic group of people with almost nothing in common except their commute discover that a chance encounter can blossom into much more. It turns out that talking to strangers can teach you about the world around you--and even more about yourself"--

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