02847cam a2200445 i 4500 1164964996 TxAuBib 20220616120000.0 220217s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022006728 9781984878649 hardcover 1984878646 hardcover (OCoLC)1298711776 DLC eng rda DLC BDX OCLCO OCLCF LE@ OI6 TH8 RNL IMT ILC NZAUC UOK TxAuBib rda Pooley, Clare, author. People on platform 5. Iona Iverson's rules for commuting / Clare Pooley. Iona Iverson's rules for commuting : sometimes you have to break the rules. First United States edition. [New York : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, [2022] ©2022. 342 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "First published in hardcover in Great Britain as The People on Platform 5 by Bantam Press, an imprint Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2022"--Title page verso. "Nobody ever talks to strangers on the train. It's a rule. But what would happen if they did? From the New York Times bestselling author of The Authenticity Project, a heartwarming novel about unexpected friendships and the joy of connecting. 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"-- Provided by publisher. 20220616. Advice columnists Fiction. Strangers Fiction. Commuters Fiction. Transportation Fiction. Friendship Juvenile fiction. Railroad travel Fiction. London (England) Fiction. Psychological fiction. Domestic fiction. TXKIP