by Freya Sampson
Berkley, 2022. 368 pages. Fiction
Arriving in London after a breakup, brokenhearted Libby Nichols meets elderly Frank, who has been riding the 88 bus for 60 years, hoping to find a girl he met in 1962. Touched by his story, Libby decides to help Frank search, and finds her tightly controlled world expanding as she opens her heart to new friendships and romance.
I picked this book up when I heard it described as a hug in book form, and that's exactly what this book is. Although this book does contain a central mystery (will Frank ever find his girl on the bus?), the main point of the book is the relationships that the characters build along the way. If you like books about found families, or light, upbeat fiction, this is the book for you.
by Clare Pooley
Viking, 2022. 342 pages. Fiction
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, but of course, they never speak. Seasoned commuters never do. Then one morning, a man 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.
by Roselle Lim
Berkley, 2022. 336 pages. Fiction
Newly minted professional matchmaker Sophie Go has returned to Toronto, her hometown, after spending three years in Shanghai. Her job is made difficult when she is revealed as a fraud: she never actually graduated from matchmaking school. In dire search of clients, Sophie stumbles upon a secret club within her condo complex: the Old Ducks, seven septuagenarian Chinese bachelors who never found love. Somehow, she convinces them to hire her, but her matchmaking skills are put to the test as she learns the depths of loneliness, heartbreak, and love by attempting to make the hardest matches of her life.
by Shelby Van Pelt
Ecco, 2022. 360 pages. Fiction
When 70-year-old Tova Sullivan's husband dies, Tova knows that the best way to cope is to keep busy. She's been doing this since her 18-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat on the Puget Sound over 30 years ago. Tova takes a job cleaning the local aquarium at nights, where she meets Marcellus, a rescued giant Pacific octopus who likes to escape from his tank to eat his neighbors and explore. As Tova faces the reality of her ever-shrinking circle of friends and acquaintances, she comes to appreciate her time with Marcellus and finds new connections to the outside world through his interference.
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