Emma Donoghue
The Paris Express
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The Paris Express – A Gripping Historical Thriller by Emma Donoghue
🚂✨ A Fateful Journey. A Doomed Train. A Moment That Changed History. ✨🚂
From nationally bestselling and award-winning author Emma Donoghue, The Paris Express is a riveting historical novel based on the infamous 1895 Montparnasse train disaster—an event immortalized in surreal, extraordinary photographs.
📜 A Train Bound for Paris, A Cast of Lives Intertwined.
On a speeding train packed with passengers from across the world, destinies collide as politicians, medical students, anarchists, and dreamers hurtle toward an unthinkable disaster.
🔎 Among Them:
- A young anarchist with a plan that could change everything.
- A secretary trying to convince her boss of the revolutionary power of moving pictures.
- Two railway workers leading secret double lives away from their families.
- A medical student racing against time to save a girl in peril.
- Members of parliament rushing back to Paris for a critical vote.
💥 Politics, Passion, and an Unstoppable Force.
As the train barrels toward its dramatic, real-life catastrophe, Donoghue weaves a breathtaking tale of ambition, desperation, and the dawn of a new era—capturing the glamour, chaos, and breakneck speed of the late 19th century.
✨ Perfect for fans of The Nightingale, Beneath a Scarlet Sky, and The Paris Library, The Paris Express is a masterfully crafted historical novel of suspense, survival, and the choices that define us. ✨