A speculative novel of grief, a missing daughter and a train that charges in memories — Book 2 of The Train Between Worlds
The Memory Fare: A Novel of a Mother, a Missing Daughter, and the Train That Charges in Memories (The Train Between Worlds Book 2)
Six years after her daughter vanished, Cora finds her handwriting on a luggage tag — from a train that has never existed.
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.
Every morning for six years Cora Marsh has signed the visitor book at a railway lost property office and searched 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. The Memory Fare is a mother-daughter novel about what happens after a child goes missing, and the refusal to stop looking.
Cora boards the 11:47 on purpose. Nobody has ever done that before. The train charges its fares in memories, so every step toward June costs part of the life Cora is trying to hold on to. It is magical realism about grief that isn't depressing: honest about loss, and full of melancholic wonder.
A complete trilogy: all 3 books are out now.
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Cora's story stands on its own, but the train's rules make most sense after The Train Between Worlds. We recommend reading the trilogy in order.
Yes. It follows a mother six years into the search for her missing daughter. It belongs on our speculative novels about grief list.
The Memory Fare by Simran Mehta is on Amazon as a Kindle ebook and paperback.
