The Paris express : a novel / Emma Donoghue.

By:

Donoghue, Emma, 1969-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Toronto, Ontario : Harper Avenue, 2025.Edition: 1st Canadian edDescription: 274 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9781443474238 (hardcover)

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Historical fiction.

DDC classification:

[Fic] 23

Summary: A taut and suspenseful historical novel that reimagines an 1895 French railway disaster, an event famously documented in dramatic photographs. Set over a single day, as the morning train travels from the Normandy coast to Paris, men, women and children take their seats in the passenger cars, which are divided by wealth and status. Among the passengers is an anarchist intent on destruction, a young boy travelling alone, a pregnant woman fleeing her home village for the anonymity of the big city, a medical student who suspects a girl may have a fatal disease, and the railway men, devoted to the train, to the company and to each other.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Fiction	West Grey Durham Branch Shelves	Fiction	FIC DON (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	04/22/2025	33321003266260

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A taut and suspenseful historical novel that reimagines an 1895 French railway disaster, an event famously documented in dramatic photographs. Set over a single day, as the morning train travels from the Normandy coast to Paris, men, women and children take their seats in the passenger cars, which are divided by wealth and status. Among the passengers is an anarchist intent on destruction, a young boy travelling alone, a pregnant woman fleeing her home village for the anonymity of the big city, a medical student who suspects a girl may have a fatal disease, and the railway men, devoted to the train, to the company and to each other.