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Platform Seven

By: Louise Doughty
Narrated by: Olivia Dowd
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AS SEEN ON ITVX

OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES OF APPLE TREE YARD SOLD

The novel from Sunday Times bestselling author

Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkway on this freezing November morning is confident he's alone. 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.

What the man doesn't realise is that he has company. Lisa Evans knows what he has decided. She knows what he is about to do as she tries and fails to stop him walking to the platform edge.

Two deaths on Platform Seven. Two fatalities in eighteen months - surely they're connected?

No one is more desperate to understand what connects them than Lisa Evans herself. After all, she was the first of the two to die . . .

©2019 Louise Doughty (P)2019 Faber & Faber Psychological Thriller & Suspense Suspense Exciting Heartfelt Fiction

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"Louise Doughty leads her 'Utterly mesmerising.' Deborah Moggach

'Beautifully constructed.' Clare Mackintosh

'A scarily plausible story . . .' Guardian
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