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Beginning:
It’s a wonder everyone who uses public transport in winter doesn’t keel over and die of germ overload.
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She appears swaying in the doorway, but she’s not alone
My Thoughts:
I thought One Day in December would be a nice way to start the month I’m always up for a good romance and as I take public transport to work every day a story about star-crossed lovers on a bus feels right up my alley.
The Book:
One Day in December by Josie Silver
Publication Date October 18, 2018
Goodreads
A love story about what happens after you meet, or rather, don't meet the one.
Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic...and then her bus drives away.
Certain they're fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. But she doesn't find him, not when it matters anyway. Instead they "reunite" at a Christmas party, when her best friend Sarah giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. It's Jack, the man from the bus. It would be.
What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered. One Day in December is a joyous, heartwarming and immensely moving love story to escape into and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness.
I’ve wondered the same thing as your opening quote. Buses this time of year are gunky!