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IONA IVERSON'S RULES FOR COMMUTING
By: Clare Pooley
A Novel
Pamela Dorman Books
June 2022
On Sale: June 7, 2022
Featuring: Iona
352 pages
ISBN: 1984878646
EAN: 9781984878649
Kindle: B09FPGKG84
Hardcover / e-Book
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Women's Fiction | Romance | Literature and Fiction Literary
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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