The London Train

by Tessa Hadley | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0099552264 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Beqi of Daventry, Northamptonshire United Kingdom on 11/10/2012
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Journal Entry 1 by Beqi from Daventry, Northamptonshire United Kingdom on Saturday, November 10, 2012
The London Train is a novel in two parts, separate but wound together around a single moment, examining in vivid detail two lives stretched between two cities. Paul lives in the Welsh countryside with his wife Elise, and their two young children. The day after his mother dies he learns that his eldest daughter Pia, who was living with his ex-wife in London, has moved out from home and gone missing. He sets out in search of Pia, and when he eventually finds her, living with her lover in a chaotic flat in a tower block in King's Cross, he thinks at first he wants to rescue her. But the search for his daughter begins a period of unrest and indecision for Paul: he is drawn closer to the hub of London, to the excitements of a life lived in jeopardy, to Pia's fragile new family. Paul's a pessimist; when a heat wave scorches the capital week after week he fears that they are all 'sleep-walking to the edge of a great pit, like spoiled trusting children'.


In the opposite direction, Cora is moving back to Cardiff, to the house she has inherited from her parents. She is escaping her marriage, and the constrictions and disappointments of her life in London. At work in the local library, she is interrupted by a telephone call from her sister-in-law and best friend, to say that her husband has disappeared.


Connecting both stories is the London train, and a chance meeting that will have immediate and far-reaching consequences for both Paul and for Cora.


The London Train is a vivid and absorbing account of the impulses and accidents that can shape our lives, alongside our ideas; about loyalty, love, sex and the complicated bonds of friends and family. Penetrating, perceptive, and wholly absorbing, it is an extraordinary new novel from one of the best writers working in Britain today.

Journal Entry 2 by Beqi at By hand, by hand -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Released 10 yrs ago (6/12/2013 UTC) at By hand, by hand -- Controlled Releases

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Journal Entry 3 by retromonkey at Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire United Kingdom on Thursday, September 21, 2017
I've had this for too long - so time for it to move on.

Released 6 yrs ago (9/22/2017 UTC) at BCUK UnConvention 2017 📚 in Loughborough, Leicestershire United Kingdom

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Journal Entry 5 by wingCassiopaeiawing at Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom on Sunday, September 24, 2017
Well, a story with train connection between London and Cardiff, by an author who lives in Cardiff, I had to pick it up!

Journal Entry 6 by wingCassiopaeiawing at Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom on Thursday, October 19, 2017
The settings in this book were so familiar, in particular the Cardiff house, I live near here and it made me feel like an eavesdropper! Enjoyed the read and I might even try another book by the same author.

Journal Entry 7 by wingCassiopaeiawing at Coffee#1, Queen Street in Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom on Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Released 6 yrs ago (11/22/2017 UTC) at Coffee#1, Queen Street in Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom

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