INDIE BOOKSHOP EXCLUSIVE EDITION Author: Emma Donoghue Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published on 26th February 2026 by Pan Macmillan (Picador) in the United Kingdom.Paperback / softback | 288 pages 197mm x 130mm | 300g 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 IndependentA 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
