If clothes can get a second chance, why canât we? Brimming with life, love, and the stories bound up in even the most everyday items, The Second Chance Store is a tale of friendship, loss, and dusting yourself off and starting overâa novel filled with humor and a testament to the enduring power and joy of charity shops.
City dweller Gwen feels like sheâs living a secondhand life. Sheâs thirty-eight, perpetually single, and in dire need of a dentistâs appointment. Her friends are busy procreating in the country, and conversations with her parents seem to revolve entirely around hedge borders and the trash pickup schedule. Above all sheâs lonely. But then, isnât everyone?
Then sheâs let go from a job she drifted into a decade ago and never left, and Gwen realizes itâs time to make a change, starting with cleaning out her apartment. In the charity shop where she literally and metaphorically unloads her baggage, she discovers a group of weird and wonderful people devoted to finding a new home for donated items that have lost their use elsewhere. Gwen volunteers thereâand finds a new home for herself among her fellow workers while discovering joy in the untold stories of secondhand things.
Now itâs time for Gwen to get out of her life in pause, and to find a way to move forward with bravery and humanityâand more regular dental care.