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.
