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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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The characters are all in some situation of stress but some of them are struggling with mental illness.This is perhaps an underrepresented topic in contemporary literature, yet so relevant in the context of disruptive technology and millennial workers. Through time each of the five characters reveals something sensitive about themselves or fall on hard times. The story centers around Iona (the glue that holds this train gang together), but we also get to meet so many other characters that bring laughter, sadness, a few surprises, and hope to the story. This is such a marvellous read; a fabulous array of characters coping with the vagaries of everyday life and, as a collective, showing warmth, humour and love for their fellow man (and woman).

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courtesy Penguin Random House) If really good sci-fi is all about to taking a great big, long, hard look at the dark soul of humanity, and the best of it is, then Voyaging Vol. People boarded the train at all the usual stops along the line, but for the first time in months, most of the seats around her [Iona] remained empty. If you are an inveterate reader, the odds are good, better than good actually, that fellow readers or close friends (sometimes, happily, they are both) that at some point they will recommend a book to you. Fifty-seven-year-old Iona Iverson, spends her thirty-six-minute morning commute (ten stops to Waterloo), preparing for her day and observing the commuters around her with her dog Lulu by her side. That Iona becomes the glue of this ragtag group of commuters is the thrust of the story, a tale that made me just so very happy.It’s incredibly easy to read, it’s feel good, it’s warm, it’s certainly one to bump up your TBR list. Woven into the story fabric are themes of loss, romance and redemption which in my opinion failed to save it. Survival against impossible extraterrestrial odds: Invasion ends its second season with hope … and not?

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Iona tries to guide everyone as they work on putting their lives back on track but she’s not as happy-go-lucky as she seems. There’s something comforting about referring to brotherhood, mercy and justice because they sound full of virtue and goodness and the assumption is made, somewhat erroneously, that everyone knows exactly what’s meant by them.

Very much enjoyed this but the only niggle is that the main character, who is in her fifties, is portrayed as if she’s in her eighties! This book is a quick and easy read about a group of strangers who become friends as they take the same train almost everyday. It treads just a bit too heavily into cliches (and honestly, I think Iona should have been older than 57 for the way her age was talked about), but if you don’t think too heavily about it, Clare Pooley has given you lots to cheer for, in a lighthearted easy read.

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