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A review by b00kh0arder
The 24-Hour Café by Libby Page
5.0
Stella's is a 24 hour cafe opposite London's Liverpool Street station, a place where the busy, lonely and/or hungry can find refuge any time of the day, and a retro aestheticist's dream (decorated to resemble a cross between an American Diner & British Cafe; by about page 2 I was already wishing that it was a real place). Over the course of one 24 hour period, we follow two waitresses, Hannah and Mona (one an aspiring singer the other a dancer) and some of the customers they interact with.
Not much may "happen" in this book but it is an emotional rollercoaster (in the best way possible). Shows how cafes', and places where people gather in general, are microcosms of the human condition and that, sometimes, man, or woman, is an island, but occasionally you may connect with one of the many surrounding you.
Not much may "happen" in this book but it is an emotional rollercoaster (in the best way possible). Shows how cafes', and places where people gather in general, are microcosms of the human condition and that, sometimes, man, or woman, is an island, but occasionally you may connect with one of the many surrounding you.