How it all began
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The mugging of a retired schoolteacher on a London street has unexpected repercussions for her friends and neighbors when it inadvertently reveals an illicit love affair, leads to a business partnership, and helps an immigrant to reinvent his life.
Life change eventsFictionMugging victimsInterpersonal relationsFamiliesNeighborsNew York Times reviewedFiction, generalLondon (england), fiction