Trains and lovers
(2013, original release: 2012)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/MCCALL SMITH,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Pantheon Books, [2013]
©2012
©2012
EDITION
First United States edition
DESCRIPTION
239 pages ; 19 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780307908544, 0307908542
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
In the words of Alexander McCall Smith: 'You feel the rocking of the train, you hear the sound of its wheels on the rails; you are in the world rather than suspended somewhere above it. And sometimes there are conversations to be had, which is what the overarching story in this collection is all about. It is a simple device: people brought together entertain one another with tales of what happened to them on trains. It takes place on a journey I frequently make myself and know well, the journey between Edinburgh and London. It is best read on a train, preferably that one.'
As they travel by rail from Edinburgh to London, four strangers entertain one another with tales of how trains have changed their lives