Platform Seven is Louise Doughty’s ninth novel. Lisa Evans’s story is as resonant as it is unputdownable.’ Louisa Joyner, Editorial Director, said: ‘I remember finishing Apple Tree Yard by a pool in Greece and thinking “How did Louise Doughty create a novel that is both utterly gripping with a protagonist so perfectly-realised, Dr Yvonne Charmicheal feels like a friend of a friend.” In Platform Seven she takes that wisdom and heart and blends it with a story readers will be glued to, and talking about, in their thousands. After all, she was the first of the two to die… No one is more desperate to understand what connects them than Lisa Evans herself. Two fatalities in eighteen months – surely they’re connected? She knows what he is about to do as she tries and fails to stop him walking to the platform edge. What the man doesn’t realise is that he has company. As he sits on the metal bench at the far end of the platform it is clear his choice is strategic – he’s as far away from the night staff as he can get. The man crossing the covered walkway on this freezing November morning is confident he’s alone. Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. Platform Seven is a gripping, brilliant, original and eerily-timely novel. Louisa Joyner, Editorial Director, bought World All Languages rights from Antony Harwood at Antony Harwood Limited. Faber & Faber will publish Platform Seven by bestselling author of Apple Tree Yard, Louise Doughty, on 22 August 2019.
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