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The Paris Express

The Paris Express

by Emma Donoghue

From Emma Donoghue, the bestselling author of Room, The Paris Express is a propulsive novel about a train, the people on board and the secrets and dangers they carry with them.

Format
Paperback
Category
Fiction
Publisher
Macmillan
Publish Date
March 2025

Europe is racing towards the future. Steam travel is the emblem of progress; industry and invention are creating ever greater wealth and ever greater deprivation; and on an autumn day in 1895 a young woman determined to make her mark on history boards the Granville to Paris Express with a bomb. With her travel the train crew and her fellow passengers: the men who run the engine, who have built a life together away from their wives; a little boy travelling alone for the first time; a wealthy statesman and his ill daughter; an artist far from home and in search of a muse; and another young woman with a secret of a very different nature hidden beneath the layers of her dress . . . The Paris Express is a thrilling ride and a literary masterpiece that captures the politics, fear, and chaos of the end of the nineteenth century.

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