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Coles The Quiet Life List at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
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Clara has a good life. A good job. A good apartment. Good friends. Everything in its place.
So why does it feel like a life she has been maintaining instead of living?
One quiet November evening, Clara sits down at her kitchen table with a cold cup of tea and a blank notebook — and writes a list. Not a goal list. Not a plan. Just a series of small, honest things she has been somehow avoiding. Things like sitting in silence without reaching for her phone. Saying no without explaining. Stopping trying to be chosen.
Simple things. Harder than they sound.
As Clara works her way through her Quiet Life List, she finds herself drawn to a small café called Freely — and to Evan, the quietly steady man behind the counter who seems to see her more clearly than she sees herself. What begins as somewhere to sit becomes something she didn't plan for and couldn't have designed.
The Quiet Life List is a warm and tender novel about the courage it takes to stop performing and start living. About the small brave acts of choosing yourself — your wants, your rest, your truth — one item at a time.
For anyone who has ever needed permission to begin again.
Clara has a good life. A good job. A good apartment. Good friends. Everything in its place.
So why does it feel like a life she has been maintaining instead of living?
One quiet November evening, Clara sits down at her kitchen table with a cold cup of tea and a blank notebook — and writes a list. Not a goal list. Not a plan. Just a series of small, honest things she has been somehow avoiding. Things like sitting in silence without reaching for her phone. Saying no without explaining. Stopping trying to be chosen.
Simple things. Harder than they sound.
As Clara works her way through her Quiet Life List, she finds herself drawn to a small café called Freely — and to Evan, the quietly steady man behind the counter who seems to see her more clearly than she sees herself. What begins as somewhere to sit becomes something she didn't plan for and couldn't have designed.
The Quiet Life List is a warm and tender novel about the courage it takes to stop performing and start living. About the small brave acts of choosing yourself — your wants, your rest, your truth — one item at a time.
For anyone who has ever needed permission to begin again.
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