“Unsettled by the recent death of his mother,
Paul sets out in search of Pia, his daughter from his first marriage, who has
disappeared into the labyrinth of London.
Discovering her pregnant and living illegally in a run-down council flat with a
pair of Polish siblings, Paul is entranced by Pia’s excitement at living on the
edge. Abandoning his second wife and their children in Wales, he joins her to begin a new life in the
heart of London.
Cora, meanwhile, is running in the opposite direction, back to Cardiff, to the house she has inherited from
her parents. She is escaping her marriage, and the constrictions and
disappointments of her life in London.
But there is a deeper reason why she cannot stay with her decent Civil Service
husband—the aftershocks of which she hasn’t fully come to terms with herself. Connecting
both stories is the London
train, and a chance meeting that will have immediate and far-reaching
consequences for both Paul and Cora.”
