Second Spring Atlas

At fifty-eight you meet Noor, who tests day trips for a rail guide. They only count if she goes alone, and she would like your company.

funny · romantic · gentle · frank · Medium, about 30 scenes

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Robin, Robin, fifty-eight, separated last year, working three days a week, with modest savings, no car since the settlement, and a 1994 road atlas of other people's pencilled stars to follow by train and bus

How it begins

Robin's atlas said the view on page forty-seven was worth the trip. It was now a supermarket car park. Someone had pencilled a star beside it in 1996 or thereabouts, with "wonderful light" and the initials G.P. In fairness the light was still wonderful. It came low across forty bays and a trolley shelter with a green roof, and in through the window of the station café, where Robin sat with the atlas open, a pot of tea going cold and a bus timetable that did not want to be understood.