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The Memory Fare

The Memory Fare: A Novel of a Mother, a Missing Daughter, and the Train That Charges in Memories (The Train Between Worlds Book 2)

by Simran Mehta

Six years after her daughter vanished, Cora finds her handwriting on a luggage tag — from a train that has never existed.

What The Memory Fare is about

Every morning Cora Marsh signs the visitor book at a railway lost property office and searches unclaimed bags for something of June's. Then she finds a grey holdall tagged in her daughter's hand: J. MARSH — NOT LOST, off the 11:47. She boards it on purpose. Nobody has ever done that before.

For: readers who want grief written honestly inside a strange machine.

Tropes & themes

The Train Between Worlds — read in order

  1. Book 1 · The Train Between Worlds
  2. Book 2 · The Memory Fare (you are here)
  3. Book 3 · The Forty-Year Passenger

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