"A charming story of breathing life into things (and people!), The Second Chance Store tells the story of a floundering woman who needs a purpose. She finds one in a storyline about love and loss, one that will both capture your heart and warm it, with a satisfying ending that will leave you searching for other books by Lauren Bravo." — Courtney Cole, New York Times bestselling author
“If you've ever wandered into a thrift store and wondered what the story was behind all that stuff, Lauren Bravo's moving and touching novel answers that question. The Second Chance Store is a charming tale of why people (and things) deserve a second (or third or fourth) chance to get it right when it comes to loss, love and life. I loved this book filled with humor, humanity, and hope.” — Lian Dolan, author of Love and Found in Paris
“I think I’ve been waiting for a novel like The Second Chance Store for my whole reading life. This is a luscious, shimmering book of depth and delicacy. It’s sad, hilarious, tender, brutal, brilliantly observed—there is a sense of magic on every page.” — Daisy Buchanan, author of Careering and Insatiable
“Lauren Bravo is one of my very favorite writers.” — Dolly Alderton, author of Ghosts
"Laugh-out-loud funny but also poignant and tender… an absorbingly special debut novel. I devoured in equal measure the delicious descriptions of food and the moving vignettes of preloved treasures peppered throughout the book, while the nineties and noughties nostalgia had me gasping with pleasure." — Laura Price, author of Single Bald Female
"An absolute triumph. It’s so rare to find a book that you feel so invested in... so ruddy good. And clever. And FUNNY... It was like High Fidelity for charity shops... The writing is so natural and there’s a sense of wonder on every page... Honestly it’s just a BRILLIANT book. I loved it so much." — Eva Rice, author of The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
"Just like that once-in-a-lifetime charity shop find, (this) is a gleaming prize to betreasured. Lauren Bravo is witty and thoughtful in her exploration of our relationship with objects and trends, believing that – just as a pair of shoes can have many, many lives – so can the people that wear them." — Caroline O'Donoghue, author of Promising Young Women, Scenes of a Graphic Nature and the All Our Hidden Gifts series
"Full of relatable anecdotes, lively, funny and modern, The Second Chance Store is a moving tale of emancipation and friendship. I loved it!" — Margaux Vialleron, author of The Yellow Kitchen
Lauren Bravo is an author and award-winning freelance journalist who writes about fashion, popular culture, food, travel, and feminism. She is the author of What Would the Spice Girls Do? and How to Break Up with Fast Fashion—which was inspired by her yearlong fast-fashion ban—and a contributor to the intersectional feminist essay collection This Is How We Come Back Stronger: Feminist Writers on Turning Crisis into Change. Lauren volunteers once a week at her local Crisis UK charity shop, which provided rich and bountiful inspiration for her debut novel The Second Chance Store (as well as a chance to get first dibs on all the best clothes).
