Title: The Lost Ticket
Author: Freya Sampson
Publisher: Berkley
Release Date: August 30, 2022
Strangers aboard a London bus unite to help an elderly man find his missed love connection in the heartwarming new novel from the author of The Last Chance Library.
When Libby Nicholls arrives in London, brokenhearted and with her life in tatters, the first person she meets on the bus is elderly Frank. He tells her about the time in 1962 that he met a girl on the number 88 bus with beautiful red hair just like hers. They made plans for a date at the National Gallery art museum, but Frank lost the bus ticket with her number on it. For the past sixty years, he’s ridden the same bus trying to find her, but with no luck.
Libby is inspired to action and, with the help of an unlikely companion, she papers the bus route with posters advertising their search. Libby begins to open her guarded heart to new friendships and a budding romance, as her tightly controlled world expands. But with Frank’s dementia progressing quickly, their chance of finding the girl on the 88 bus is slipping away.
More than anything, Libby wants Frank to see his lost love one more time. But their quest also shows Libby just how important it is to embrace her own chances for happiness—before it’s too late—in a beautifully uplifting novel about how a shared common experience among strangers can transform lives in the most marvelous ways.
Heartwarming!
Libby Nicholls has recently moved to London. At twenty-nine, she is currently living with her sister, her sister’s husband, and their young son, Hector. Libby’s boyfriend of eight years has ended their relationship. Worse still, she was living with him and working for him, so now she has lost both her home and her job.
One day, she takes the 88 bus—and that’s where she meets Frank. Frank is an eighty-two-year-old retired actor who had a highly successful career. He tells Libby he has been riding the 88 bus for the last fifty years, searching for the girl he met on the same bus long ago. She had given him her phone number on a ticket stub, but he lost it. They had planned to meet at the National Gallery, but the meeting never happened. Frank wants to find her again. He believes he owes her a debt of gratitude: she inspired him to follow his heart and pursue the acting career that gave him a fulfilled life.
After meeting Frank, Libby is determined to help him find this mysterious woman. Serendipitously, she also meets Dylan, a young man who works as Frank’s caregiver.
The Lost Ticket is utterly charming, filled with endearing and unforgettable characters. The novel offers many quiet life lessons and ends on a beautifully bittersweet note.
A journey well worth taking!
Cliffhanger: No
4/5 Fangs
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