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400 pages, Hardcover
First published June 9, 2022
Libby Nicholls, newly arrived in London, is boarding the 88 bus broken-hearted and with an uncertain future ahead of her. An elderly gentleman named Frank strikes a conversation with her, revealing that her red hair reminded him of a girl he met in the bus back in 1962. Frank and the girl had made plans to meet but he lost the ticket on which she had written her number, and has been looking for her since the last sixty years.
Libby almost forgets her own personal chaos on hearing Frank’s sad story, and decides to help him search for ‘the girl on the 88 bus.’ Time is of the essence as Frank also has dementia, which is worsening.
The story comes to us in the third person perspective of Libby and the first person perspective of another character, whom we know about later.