If clothes can get a second chance, why canāt 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 overāa novel filled with humor and a testament to the enduring power and joy of charity shops.
City dweller Gwen feels like sheās living a secondhand life. Sheās thirty-eight, perpetually single, and in dire need of a dentistās 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 sheās lonely. But then, isnāt everyone?
Then sheās let go from a job she drifted into a decade ago and never left, and Gwen realizes itās 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 thereāand finds a new home for herself among her fellow workers while discovering joy in the untold stories of secondhand things.
Now itās time for Gwen to get out of her life in pause, and to find a way to move forward with bravery and humanityāand more regular dental care.