Product Description
The Paris Express
Author: Emma Donoghue
Format: Paperback
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Room and The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue takes readers on a thrilling ride through a simmering turn-of-the-century Paris on the edge of a dazzling future. ‘Ratchets up the pace until it’s hurtling along as fast as the train itself’ – Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam ‘A zippy Agatha Christie-like thriller giving a taste of life in fin-de-siècle France’ – The Guardian A woman determined to make her mark. A journey that will change everything.
Paris, 1895. One morning, a young woman boards the Granville Express with a deadly plan.
On the journey lives intertwine in explosive ways. There are the railway crew who have everything to lose, a little boy travelling alone for the first time, an elderly statesman with his fragile wife and a lonely artist far from home.
The train speeds towards the City of Light and into a future that will change everything . . . ‘An edge-of-your-seat historical thriller that I couldn’t put down’ – Shelby Van Pelt, author of Remarkably Bright Creatures
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