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After decades, former lovers come face to face in a novel filled with a âsuspenseful dread that makes you want to turn every page at locomotive paceâ (St. Louis Post-Dispatch).  Cécile, a stylish forty-seven-year-old, has spent the weekend visiting her parents in a provincial town southeast of Paris. By early Monday morning, sheâs exhausted. These trips back home are always stressful, and she settles into a train compartment with an empty seat beside her. But itâs soon occupied by a man she instantly recognizes: Philippe Leduc, with whom she had a passionate affair that ended in her brutal humiliation almost thirty years ago.  In the fraught hour and a half that ensues, their express train hurtles toward the French capital. Cécile and Philippe undertake their own face-to-face journeyâIn silence? What could they possibly say to one another?âwith the reader gaining entrée to the most private of thoughts. This intense, intimate novel offers âa taut, suspenseful psychological journey from which there is no escape . . . Grippingâ (Kati Marton, author of Paris: A Love Story).  âPerfectly written and a remarkably suspenseful read . . . Absorbing, intriguing, insightful.â âLibrary Journal (starred review) |
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