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<p class="null1">A wonderful new stand-alone novel from the internationally beloved and best-selling Alexander McCall Smith: a story that explores the nature of love—and trains—through a series of intertwined romantic tales.</p> <p>The rocking of the train car, 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 <i>Trains and Lovers</i>. As they travel by rail from Edinburgh to London, they entertain one another with tales of how trains have changed their lives. A young, keen-eyed Scotsman recounts how he turned a friendship with a young 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 arts patron sees two young men saying good-bye in the station and recalls his 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 inv

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Author

McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-

Publisher

Pantheon Books

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307908544

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Travel

Rating

3.58 / 5 (3,721 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14