The Paris Express

<p><b>From the<i> Sunday Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Room</i> and <i>The Pull of the Stars</i>, Emma Donoghue takes readers on a thrilling ride through a simmering turn-of-the-century Paris on the edge of a dazzling future.</b><br><br>‘Ratchets up the pace until it’s hurtling along as fast as the train itself’ – Alice Winn, author of <i>In Memoriam</i><br>‘A zippy Agatha Christie-like thriller giving a taste of life in fin-de-siècle France’ – <i>The Guardian</i><br><br><i><b>A woman determined to make her mark. A journey that will change everything.</b></i><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><b>‘An edge-of-your-seat historical thriller that I couldn’t put down’ – Shelby Van Pelt, author of <i>Remarkably Bright Creatures</i></b></p>