Trains and Lovers

As they journey by rail from Edinburgh to London, four strangers pass the time by sharing tales of trains that have changed their lives. A keen-eyed Scotsman recounts how he turned a friendship with a coworker into a romance by spotting an anachronistic train in an eighteenth-century painting. An Australian woman shares how her parents fell in love and spent their life together running a railroad siding in the remote Outback. A middle-aged American patron of the arts sees two young men saying goodbye in a train station and recalls his own youthful crush on another man. And a young Englishman describes how exiting his train at the wrong station allowed him to meet an intriguing woman whom he impulsively invited to dinner-and into his life.

Here is Alexander McCall Smith at his most subtle and enchanting, exploring the nature of love--and trains--in this utterly captivating story.


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 12/31/2013
ISBN: 9780345805812
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.07h x 5.19w x 0.77d

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 01/17/2014 pg. 71