Life is a hard and a unkind phenomenon. There are always difficult choices to be made and sometimes we have a tendency to give up before we start. Mistakes are made and some of them can haunt us for the rest of our lives. But a lifetime does not last forever and you don’t always get a second chance. The biggest mistake of them all, is to miss your opportunity. Our main character Gerald gets his opportunity to fall in love again. And this chance he will not take for granted.
The story “Save as many as you ruin" revolves around Gerald and his boring life and his inner thoughts and feelings.

Gerald is a grown man (probably in his forties). He lives in Manhattan with his daughter, Lucy. Lucy’s mother died tragically many years ago. The novel