The Paris Express

Beschreibung

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.<BR><BR>'Ratchets up the pace until it's hurtling along as fast as the train itself' - Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam<BR>'A zippy Agatha Christie-like thriller giving a taste of life in fin-de-siècle France' - The Guardian<BR><BR>A woman determined to make her mark.

A journey that will change everything.<BR><BR>Paris, 1895. One morning, a young woman boards the Granville Express with a deadly plan.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>The train speeds towards the City of Light and into a future that will change everything . . .<BR><BR>'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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