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GOOD OMENS S3 MAJOR SPOILERS!!! IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT, DON'T READ.
A man walks into a bookshop on a Tuesday afternoon looking for a book on astrophysics.
This is not, on the face of it, a remarkable event. People walk into bookshops every day. The Tuesday afternoon in question is grey and slightly damp, which is the default setting for Tuesday afternoons in London, and the man — tall, red-haired, wearing glasses that are absolutely not appropriate for the weather — does not look like someone in the grip of destiny.
Neither does the bookshop's librarian, for that matter.
But here is the thing about destiny: it doesn't particularly care what you look like, or whether you've combed your hair, or whether the astrophysics section is embarrassingly wedged between Gardening and Philosophy. Destiny has a long memory and a great deal of patience, and it has been waiting, in one form or another, for rather a long time.
The man's name is on the cover of the book. The librarian's name is Asa Fell.
Twenty years later, they will sit together in a cottage on the South Downs and listen to a nightingale.
This is the story of everything in between.Bookmarked by rosyotter
14 May 2026