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
 
‘Riveting’
The Washington Post
 
‘All about speed . . . This novel is a masterclass’
The Independent
 
A woman determined to make her mark. A journey that will change everything.

Paris, 1895. Glamour hides a city on the brink. 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