The People on Platform 5: A feel-good and uplifting read with unforgettable characters from the bestselling author of The Authenticity Project

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You will absolutely fall in love with Iona and Emmie and Sanjay and Martha and Piers and Jake and David. Based in the outskirts of London, Iona commutes with Lulu her pug, which draws attention from the other commuters. Her editor decides the magazine needs to attract a younger demographic and soon she's put on notice.

A single act of kindness between this odd mix of people who have absolutely nothing in common except their daily train ride, is the spark that lights the way to so much more entering their lives!ALSO READ: ‘Trespasses’: A thrilling account of forbidden love in the time of the Troubles Why should you read ‘The People on Platform 5’?

Clare Pooley graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge and spent twenty years in the heady world of advertising. Her blog has had over two million hits and her TEDx talk, Making Sober Less Shameful, has had over 110,000 views. They never speak to one another — or anyone else on board — because that’s just not the done thing between commuters.Our offices are for administrative purposes only, no visitors will be accepted without an appointment. courtesy Ultimo Press) When it comes to Sliding Doors territory, that exciting or maddening place, depending on your perspective, where possibilities are endless and change, incremental or large is a constant, there are always a multitude of ways things can either come together or go spinning far apart.

Through time each of the five characters reveals something sensitive about themselves or fall on hard times.This feel-good ensemble story will bring joy to readers who loved Anxious People and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine-not to mention fans of quirky London-set fare such as Ted Lasso. The characters don’t always see it that way but then that makes sense; we can be so consumed by the difficulties and trials in our life that we can’t see if there’s any sort of way forward.

Here is a quick description and cover image of book The People on Platform 5 written by Clare Pooley which was published in 2022-5-26. In Clare Pooley's author's letter at the end of this book, she talks about how she came up with these characters - how she decided to disregard the unspoken rules of commuting to create a world in which a large cast of people who take the train together become a community.

This single event starts a chain reaction, and an eclectic group of people, with almost nothing in common except their commute, discover that talking to strangers on the train might be uncomfortable and awkward, but it can challenge all of their assumptions and prejudices, and could even transform their life. In fact, so honest is this affectingly uplifting novel, that the author admits is based on some very real world issues that have directly affected her such as ageism in the workforce, bullying and the peculiarly awful grief of losing someone near and dear to you, that there are times when you wonder how the vividly realised characters are going to come out the other side. Magazine Advice Columnist Extraordinaire, Iona Iverson, with her dog Lulu, commutes by train to work daily with the same group of people.