{"product_id":"the-london-train","title":"The London Train","description":"The London Train is a novel in two parts  separate but wound together around a single moment  examining in vivid detail two lives stretched between two cities. Paul lives in the Welsh countryside with his wife Elise  and their two young children. The day after his mother dies he learns that his eldest daughter Pia  who was living with his ex-wife in London  has moved out from home and gone missing. He sets out in search of Pia  and when he eventually finds her  living with her lover in a chaotic flat in a tower block in Kings Cross  he thinks at first he wants to rescue her. But the search for his daughter begins a period of unrest and indecision for Paul: he is drawn closer to the hub of London  to the excitements of a life lived in jeopardy  to Pias fragile new family. Pauls a pessimist; when a heat wave scorches the capital week after week he fears that they are all sleep-walking to the edge of a great pit  like spoiled trusting children. In the opposite direction  Cora is moving back to Cardiff  to the house she has inherited from her parents. She is escaping her marriage  and the constrictions and disappointments of her life in London. At work in the local library  she is interrupted by a telephone call from her sister-in-law and best friend  to say that her husband has disappeared. Connecting both stories is the London train  and a chance meeting that will have immediate and far-reaching consequences for both Paul and for Cora. The London Train is a vivid and absorbing account of the impulses and accidents that can shape our lives  alongside our ideas; about loyalty  love  sex and the complicated bonds of friends and family. Penetrating  perceptive  and wholly absorbing  it is an extraordinary new novel from one of the best writers working in Britain today.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44671223824437,"sku":"ByrdShop_0224090976","price":90.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0224090976_37414a46-ca15-4269-883f-c2bba5ba1728.jpg?v=1768059234","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-london-train","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}