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Cover of The Long Way to Tuesday

Fiction

The Long Way to Tuesday

Ben Ashdown

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A retired bus driver drives the wrong way round the country to win back his wife. Very funny, very kind.

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Paperback

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Format

Paperback

Pages

320

Published

2025

Publisher

Tidewater

ISBN

978-0-00-466992-0

A gentle comic road trip about marriage, maps and one very long bus journey.

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The Long Way to Tuesday

Chapter one
The Long Way to Tuesday
It’s never too late to miss the bus.
Ben Ashdown
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Arthur Penhale had driven the number 14 for thirty-one years and had never once been late, which is why it surprised everyone, Arthur most of all, when he drove it to Scotland.

It was a Tuesday. He remembered that afterwards, because Margaret had always said nothing good happened on a Tuesday, and he had always said that was exactly why you had to keep an eye on them.

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