The London Train

Zusatztext

<p><b>Two lives stretched between two cities, two stories bound by the London train.</b></p><p>Paul sets out in search of his eldest daughter Pia, who has gone missing somewhere in London. At first he thinks he wants to rescue her, but as time passes he is drawn deeper into the excitements of the capital, and a life lived in jeopardy - he forgets his own way home.</p><p>In the opposite direction, Cora is moving back to Cardiff, to the house she inherited from her parents. She is escaping her marriage and the disappointments of her London life. And then she receives a telephone call to say that her husband has disappeared...</p>

Autorenportrait

<b>Tessa Hadley</b>is the author of six highly praised novels,<i>Accidents in the Home</i>, which was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award,<i>Everything Will Be All Right</i>,<i>The Master Bedroom</i>,<i>The London</i><i>Train,</i><i>Clever Girl</i>and<i>The Past</i>, and two collections of stories,<i>Sunstroke</i>and<i>Married Love</i>.<i>The Past</i>won the Hawthornden Prize for 2016. She lives in London and is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Her stories appear regularly in the<i>New</i><i>Yorker</i>and other magazines.

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