The Girl on the 88 Bus Freya Sampson blog tour

Title: The Girl on the 88 Bus

Author: Freya Sampson

Published: 9th June 2022

Published by: Zaffre

Availability: Hardback, eBook and audio

ISBN: 9781838778378

Pages: 400

Summary:

When Libby Nicholls arrives in London, broken-hearted and with her life in tatters, the first person she meets on the bus is elderly pensioner Frank. He tells her about the time in 1962 he met a girl on the number 88 bus with beautiful read hair just like her own. They made plans for a date at the National Gallery, but Frank lost her number written on it. For the past sixty years, he’s ridden the same bus trying to find her.

Libby is inspired by the story and with the help of an unlikely companion, she makes it her mission to help Frank’s search. As she begins to open her guarded heart to strangers and new connections. Libby’s tightly controlled world expands. But with Frank’s dementia progressing quickly, their chance of finding the girl on the number 88 bus is slipping away.

More than anything, Libby wants Frank to see his long 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.

A beautifully uplifting novel about how one chance meeting can change the course of your life.

MY REVIEW

I’m absolutely so happy to be part of the blog tour for this very exciting, unputdownable new novel The Girl On The 88 Bus by Freya Sampson.

This is one of those splendid novels that has something to be glued to on every page. I loved how all the characters collided with each other in unexpected ways.

It’s true when authors say they was inspired to write a novel by a conversation that they hear.

This is exactly what happened to Freya Sampson, over hearing a librarian having a conversation with an 102 year-old person and a simple act of kindness that sparked Freya Sampson’s idea for this story.

The author knew she wanted to write a story about a brief conversation between two strangers that could change the course of someone’s life. And how, sixty years later, another conversation with a different stranger could lead to an extraordinary act of kindness.

The inspiration for the setting of the book on a London bus came to author Freya, while sitting on a bus.

This is my first novel by Freya Simpson that I have read. With my hand on my heart, The Girl On The 88 Bus is absolutely loveable, enjoyable, and a page-turner from beginning to end.

In 1962, Young Frank can’t help starring at a beautiful red haired girl who steps onto the number 88 bus at Clapham Common Station.

They both strike up a conversation. Frank tells the girl he wants to be an actor. The girl let’s Frank know that she lives in Clapham and goes to art school. Before the girl gets of at her stop she writes her telephone number on a ticket, but Frank has sadly lost the ticket.

For Sixty years Frank has got on the Clapham number 88 bus in hope that he will find the red haired girl that he met in his twenties.

Libby has been dump by her boyfriend and steps on the 88 bus to stay with her sister. By chance Frank meets Libby on the number 88 bus. He tells Libby about the girl in 1962 that he met, but lost the ticket that she wrote her number on and that he goes on the 88 bus looking for her.

Libby has a heart of gold and with the help of social media Libby has an idea how to help Frank find the girl he met on the same 88 bus sixty years ago.

My biggest shout out is buy yourself a copy of this book and I promise you won’t be able to put it down.

Thank you ever so much Tracy Fenton for adding me to take part in this amazing blog tour and for arranging for this exciting paperback to be sent to me, I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of The Girl on the 88 Bus.

About the Author

Freya Sampson works in TV and was the executive producer of Channel 4’s Four in a Bed and Goolglesprogs. She studied History at Cambridge University and is a graduate of the Faber Academy. She lives in London with her husband, two young children and an antisocial cat. Her debut novel, The Last Library, was published in 2021, The Girl on the 88 Bus is her second novel. You can connect with author Freya Sampson on

https://www.freya-sampson.com/

Twitter: @SampsonF

Instagram: @Freyasampsonauthor