Book
Trains and lovers
Record details
- ISBN: 9780345807779 (hc.) :
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Physical Description:
print
239 p. ; 19 cm. - Publisher: Toronto : Knopf Canada, 2013.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published in Great Britain by Polygon Books, an imprint of Birlinn Limited, Edinburgh, in 2012. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Railroad travel -- Fiction Strangers -- Fiction |
| Genre: | Humorous fiction. Love stories. |
Available copies
- 19 of 20 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Salmo Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 20 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Salmo Public Library | FIC MCC (Text) | 35163000079496 | Adult Fiction (hardback or trade paperback) | Volume hold | Available | - |
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A wonderful new stand-alone novel from the internationally beloved and bestselling Alexander McCall Smith: a story that explores the nature of love--and trains--through a series of intertwined romantic tales.
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 4 strangers who meet in Trains and Lovers. 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 woman co-worker into a romance by spotting an anachronistic train in an 18th-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 2 young men saying goodbye 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 invited to dinner--and into his life. Here is Alexander McCall Smith at his most enchanting.
