Trains and Lovers: A Novel Author: Alexander Mccall Smith | Language: English | ISBN:
B00AP2VKTS | Format: PDF
Trains and Lovers: A Novel Description
The rocking motion of the train as it speeds along, the sound of its wheels on the rails . . . There’s something special about this form of travel that makes for easy conversation, which is just what happens to the four strangers who meet in Trains and Lovers.
As they journey by rail from Edinburgh to London, the four travelers pass the time by sharing tales of trains that have changed their lives. A young, keen-eyed Scotsman recounts how he turned a friendship with a female 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 Australian 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 enchanting, exploring the nature of love—and trains—in a collection of romantic, intertwined stories.
- File Size: 3003 KB
- Print Length: 258 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: B00A0S34RI
- Publisher: Anchor; Reprint edition (June 11, 2013)
- Sold by: Random House LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00AP2VKTS
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Alexander McCall-Smith takes four strangers on a train journey with each talking about their past and present relationships. An enchanting book with typical McCall-Smith reflections on life today. It's an easy read, yet as always thought provoking. It's the way McCall-Smith puts into words those instants of life which are often thought, but not easily verbalized, which provide delight and sparks of insight into life as it is today. An enjoyable read.
By Michael
this is so different from the other books that I have read by this author, although on reflection perhaps the Isabel Dalhousie books are also an inside to people and how they think.
I loved this and would recommend it to others who enjoy this authors works.
By Jan
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