The Second Chance StoreAuthor :
Paperback
Published : Tuesday 4 July 2023
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If clothes can get a second chance, why cant we? Brimming with life, love, and the stories bound up in even the most everyday items, The Second Chance Store is a tale of friendship, loss, and dusting yourself off and starting overa novel filled with humor and a testament to the enduring power and joy of charity shops.
City dweller Gwen feels like shes living a secondhand life. Shes thirty-eight, perpetually single, and in dire need of a dentists appointment. Her friends are busy procreating in the country, and conversations with her parents seem to revolve entirely around hedge borders and the trash pickup schedule. Above all shes lonely. But then, isnt everyone?
Then shes let go from a job she drifted into a decade ago and never left, and Gwen realizes its time to make a change, starting with cleaning out her apartment. In the charity shop where she literally and metaphorically unloads her baggage, she discovers a group of weird and wonderful people devoted to finding a new home for donated items that have lost their use elsewhere. Gwen volunteers thereand finds a new home for herself among her fellow workers while discovering joy in the untold stories of secondhand things.
Now its time for Gwen to get out of her life in pause, and to find a way to move forward with bravery and humanityand more regular dental care.
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