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The Paris Express

By: Emma Donoghue
Narrated by: Justin Avoth
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Europe is racing towards the future. Steam travel is the emblem of progress; industry and invention are creating ever greater wealth and ever greater deprivation; and on an autumn day in 1895 a young woman determined to make her mark on history boards the Granville to Paris Express with a bomb.

With her travel the train crew and her fellow passengers: the men who run the engine, who have built a life together away from their wives; a little boy travelling alone for the first time; a wealthy statesman and his ill daughter; an artist far from home and in search of a muse; and another young woman with a secret of a very different nature hidden beneath the layers of her dress . . .

The Paris Express is a thrilling ride and a literary masterpiece that captures the politics, fear, and chaos of the end of the nineteenth century.

©2025 Emma Donoghue (P)2025 Macmillan Australia Audio Genre Fiction Literary Fiction
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The story, the narration - just wonderful. Another subtle but exquisite historical fiction by Emma Donoghue.

This is just beautiful

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