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This book is bursting with the kindness of strangers, and I was bursting with hope by the end of it Jenny Bayliss
The fantastic cast of eclectic characters will steal your heart & have you rooting for their happy endings' Iona is a larger-than-life “ex” influencer who still influences. She tall, noticeable, and not at all apologetic. She sits in the same train car every morning, sees the same commuters, and has pet names for them all like “Smart-But-Sexist-Manspreader” (if you commute, you know of whom she’s speaking) and Terribly-Lonely-Teenager. Anyone who has commuted for years, at the same time on the same train will see the same people. And of course, who cannot resist the allure of giving them pet names. What’s fun is that they all have pet names for her as well. THE AUTHENTICITY PROJECT is one of my favorite books and IONA IVERSON’S RULES FOR COMMUTING shines just as brightly, if not even brighter. This beautifully-written story, which rather audaciously dares to imagine what might happen if regular commuters on the same train line in London dared to actually speak to each other, is like a tonic for the soul because not only does it bring a number of lost big city souls into the kind of nurturing found family they all desperately need, but it does so in a way that helps them answer some big questions in their life and take some pretty positive steps forward.It leaves] the reader with that fuzzy feeling you want from a feel-good book. Fans of her previous hit, The Authenticity Project, will not be disappointed * Woman's Weekly * Rather cleverly too, the way in which these characters come together is not instantaneous; rather they take a while to let down their barriers, to actually come around to the idea that not saying “Hi” to a fellow commuter but becoming involved in their lives isn’t a bad thing, and it gives The People on Platform 5 an emotional heft and substance that makes the ending that follows feel well-deserved and truthful. Clare Pooley has found a delightful way to bring home the point that we need each other Kelly Corrigan, New York Times bestselling author I loved meeting the people on platform 5 - a delightful story about connection and friendship in a disconnected world * Marianne Cronin, author of The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot * It is an easy read feel good book with a well drawn cast of fantastic characters who become unlikely friends on their daily commute.
Clare’s debut novel The Authenticity Project is inspired by her decision to expose the rather grubby truth about her seemingly perfect life in her memoir. Filled with delightful characters... this heart-warming book explores relationships and the dilemmas of everyday life * Candis * 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. A book, they will assure you with a mix of solemnity and enthusiasm, is Continue Readingcourtesy IMP Awards) Creative inspiration can come from all kinds of strange, beautiful and unexpected places – a waterfall at sunset, a colourfully-dressed woman on a train at peak hour or a snippet of history, long forgotten but dredged up to fill a social media post with a fascinating factoid. Continue Reading Heartwarming, funny, a delicious dive into the profound and ridiculous modern world in which we live. Clare Pooley reminds us why we need each other Tara Conklin, New York Times bestselling author courtesy Allen & Unwin Book Publishers) We live in a grievously unbalanced world. No surprises there you say; one look at the 24/7 news cycle or at the place we work or the society in which we live and it becomes clear that fairness very rarely rules the day and Continue Reading The wondrously good thing about The People on Platform 5 is that for all the magic of the narrative, it also feels really down to earth and quite real.
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