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What if you can’t stand where you are because there’s nothing there? What if you don’t want to end up anywhere else in case that’s empty too? When life has lost its road map, sometimes the only way to get back on track is to get back on the rails.

The Seventh Train is a ride - a ‘road movie’ on the railways. It’s a journey that Elizabeth invented; the only original thought she has ever had in her previously uneventful life. Unbeknown to her, she is not travelling alone. If only she’d pretended that the spare seat was taken.

With a wonderfully eclectic cast of characters, The Seventh Train takes its passengers on a journey from the tragic to the strange, arriving finally at hope. By turns heart-breaking, thought-provoking and hilarious, this tale is a life-affirming exploration of the human spirit via the British railway timetable!

“Ingenious, great fun, and wholly original”- Fay Weldon CBE, on The Seventh Train

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31 Mar. 2019
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'Ingenious, great fun, and wholly original' --- Fay Weldon CBE, on The Seventh Train --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Jackie Carreira is a writer, musician, designer and co-founder of QuirkHouse Theatre. She has twice been a winner of the Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama. Her favourite place to write is in railway cafés. The Seventh Train was born over several cappuccinos at Paddington station. This is her second novel. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07Q83JJ2B
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Matador (31 Mar. 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3063 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 233 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1789018935

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Chilli Burrita

A lovely story to lift the spirits in this time of stress

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 April 2020

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I really enjoyed this book. I loved the way the different characters were introduced and was dying to know who they were and what their story was; there's a surprise in everyone. I love the concept of the 7th train and have decided that if life ever gets back to normal again, it might be something to try!

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stella

Intriguing, insightful, brilliant!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 May 2019

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The only thing I didn't like was that this book ended too soon!
The fact that there was a message about suicide,it's terrible impact and where to get help makes it not only a story but a reaching hand for the desperate.

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Richard Latham

Funny, poignant and very readable.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 April 2019

A quite unique read about travelling on trains and everything railways.
As a lapsed train spotted always comfortable under interesting motive power or idling around stations the subject matter is a pure delight. I have always enjoyed accounts aboard a train, from Russia with love, Stamboul train, 4:50 from Paddington, The ABC murders and The Blue Train.
Many a great documentary has been shown about great train journeys, from Michael Palin to Michael Portillo. Paul Theroux has allowed me to follow him on some tremendous railway adventures and the Orient Express still carries a sense of mystery and intrigue if not passengers.
The seventh train therefore had me in seventh heaven - hooked, (or coupled up), right from the start.
It is a deeply profound and revealing story. Quite an interesting piece of literature that reflects on the need to travel and how journeys are taken. Yet it conjures up many familiar experiences we all share from commuters to holiday makers on the train.
The scene in a railway buffet / cafe waiting for a train was pricelessly funny and timeless. It was like watching Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson in Brief Encounter.
Elizabeth is by far the most interesting and rounded character of those we meet. She has taken to a seemingly endless and continuous railway journey like train spotters on a 7 day rail rover or some Inter Railer scared to leave the U.K.
We slowly learn she is trying to find herself and shuns company in the process. Preferring to be an observer not a participant. It is working to a point but he sense of inertia may be the reason she has empathy for others where the rest in a hurry get angry with any delays and cancellations.
With time to waste and her own mind to ease she sits at a table of the busy platform cafe. Her reflection and tranquility is broken by those dreaded words. “Is this chair taken?”.
Funny, poignant and very readable the journey Elizabeth is compelled to take is both cathartic for her and reader alike.
A book to enjoy, where the motion of turning pages is as soothing as the wheels over the rails and the experience of arriving at the end leaves you happy but wanting more.

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Julia Blake

A tightly woven and interesting read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 June 2019

I had previously read a book by this author which I enjoyed very much, so I was looking forward to The Seventh Train, especially as I knew parts of it were based in my home town of Bury St Edmunds. The novel has a very interesting premise, that of a perpetual train traveller with a set routine of which trains she takes and how many stops she stays on that train before getting off and catching the next. The forward states that this novel was originally a play, and as I read the book I could see it being performed as a three-act play with a small cast and minimal set.

The writing was elegantly simple and the characters, especially that of Elizabeth, are well rounded and believable. The pace is measured and deliberate, with time being given for the characters to develop and take root in the reader's mind. Just enough backstory on Elizabeth was supplied to show the readers the motive behind her actions so that even though I thought she was mad to be doing what she was doing, I could at least see why she was behaving that way.

This is a very insular and character led book, in that it really wouldn't matter where the action took place - after all, don't most train stations look alike - it is the characters which are its strength.

I enjoyed this book immensely and was surprised by how quickly I read it. As with her first novel, Sleeping Through War, the author left me wanting more and I will certainly be on the lookout for more by Ms Carreira.

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Stephanie Jane (Literary Flits)

Thoughtful and humorous

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 April 2019

I gave Jackie Carreira's previous novel, Sleeping Through War, 5 stars last year because I loved her writing so I was excited to spot this new novel, The Seventh Train, on NetGalley recently. Less ambitious in its scope, The Seventh Train is nonetheless a thoughtful and well observed story. I now have a new travel quote to accompany my all time favourite 'I'm always homesick for the journey' (Discovering Aberration by S C Barrus). In The Seventh Train I could completely empathise with Elizabeth's assurance that 'Travelling is just a way of not staying where you are.'

I could see shades of myself in Elizabeth which helped me to understand why she decided on her present transient lifestyle. In fact, by the end of the story, I was feeling quite enthused to join her - although I don't know whether she would appreciate yet another companion stepping into her idea! All the characters are very real so I could easily believe in them and their individual emotional journeys. Ellie particularly is great fun to spend time with! Her lively outlook and humour is a good foil to the darker themes surrounding the characters. I felt especially strong sympathy for Daniel and could not imagine how I would cope in such a situation.

The Seventh Train began life as a short play and Carreira explains its growth through various theatrical incarnations before its current presentation as a novel. Having a little theatrical experience myself I recognised scenes that would play brilliantly on stage and would love the chance to see a production in the future !

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