The Bookshop on the Corner

by Jenny Colgan

Had the wind been coming off the sea, had the bridge been closed to high-sided traffic because of strong winds. Had a million different tiny things happened. Because life is like that, isn’t it? If you thought of all the tiny things that divert your path one way or another, some good, some bad, you’d never do anything ever again. And some people don’t. Some people go through life not really deciding to do much, not wanting to, always too fearful of the consequences to try something new.