Pan Macmillan lands redemptive tale from Kim Ho-Yeon in a two-book deal

Originally published in South Korea in 2021, The Second Chance Convenience Store is a "moving and joyful story", following retired teacher and shop owner Mrs Yeom who offers a homeless man a part-time job after he returns her misplaced purse one afternoon. The man’s past is slowly revealed over the course of the novel as he connects with people who visit the shop. 

Saunders commented: "This is a story that beautifully weaves together themes of community, redemption and the transformative power of a kind act. Mrs Yeom’s convenience store is a place where lives intersect in the most unexpected yet heart-warming of ways, resonating with universal feelings of hope and second chances."