One Moment, One Morning: A Novel
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Average rating3.5
"The Brighton to London line. The 7:44 am train. Cars packed with commuters. One woman occupies her time observing the people around her. Opposite, a girl puts on her make-up. Across the aisle, a husband strokes his wife's hand. Further along, another woman flicks through a glossy magazine. Then, abruptly, everything changes: a man collapses, the train is stopped, and an ambulance is called. For at least three passengers on the 7:44 on that particular morning, life will never be the same again. There's Lou, in an adjacent seat, who witnesses events first hand. Anna, who's sitting further up the train, impatient to get to work. And Karen, the man's wife. Telling the story of the week following that fateful train journey, One Moment, One Morning is a stunning novel about love and loss, about family and - above all- friendship. A stark reminder that, sometimes, one moment is all it takes to shatter everything. Yet it also reminds us that somehow, despite it all, life can and does go on"--
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I first glimpsed this book on a shelf in WH Smiths and it's cover tantalised me and then subsequently so did it's cover blurb. It is the first Sarah Rayner novel I'd heard of and I immediately wanted to read it.
This book took me a while to get through which is not a reflection upon it at all more the fact that I decided to catalogue my ebook collection at the same time and like a woman demented I didn't want to stop. Instead I kept flitting in an out of this book, a chapter here and here.
This is the story of a man called Simon who on the 7.44 train from Brighton to London suffers a fatal heart attack. It is his wife's story, that of his wife's best friend and also of Lou, the woman who witnesses events that fateful morning.
Simon's death has a profound effect on them all and on their lives. It isn't though a depressing story. Instead I found it full of hope and love and stories of friendship at difficult times. Simon's death is not the central story merely the setting around which the real story is told.
I liked this book a great deal and would say that it left me feeling full of awareness that we all need to be aware that life is fleeting and we need to live in the moment and I would recommend this book. It is a lovely novel which is easy to read and has some truly lovely characters at it's core.
