It was like a woman’s Sunday supplement crossed with Take a Break magazine, but all the time saved from being trashy by the elegance of the writing, and of course the safety of fiction. There can’t be too many books with an event like that so high on the billing. Taking two young children to see their newly dead father in a funeral home. Show More tease out the individual atoms that make up human misery. Yet it also reminds us that somehow, despite it all, life can and does go on"- … ( more) A stark reminder that, sometimes, one moment is all it takes to shatter everything. Telling the story of the week following that fateful train journey, One Moment, One Morning is a stunning novel about love and loss, about family and - above all- friendship. Anna, who's sitting further up the train, impatient to get to work. There's Lou, in an adjacent seat, who witnesses events first hand. For at least three passengers on the 7:44 on that particular morning, life will never be the same again. Then, abruptly, everything changes: a man collapses, the train is stopped, and an ambulance is called. Further along, another woman flicks through a glossy magazine. Across the aisle, a husband strokes his wife's hand. One woman occupies her time observing the people around her.
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