Platform Seven: From the writer of BBC smash hit drama 'Crossfire'

Written by Louise Doughty

Narrated by Olivia Dowd

The new novel from Sunday Times best-selling author Louise Doughty.

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 18 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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Release date: Aug 22, 2019
• ISBN: 9780571349883

Louise Doughty

Louise Doughty’s novel Whatever You Love was short-listed for the Costa Book Award and long-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Doughty is the author of several other novels and a book of nonfiction, A Novel in a Year, based on her hugely popular newspaper column. She also writes plays and journalism and broadcasts regularly for BBC Radio 4. She lives in London.

Reviews for Platform Seven

[Emilia Bartula · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Its super slow and it feels like the author rather wrote about the sex then the actual story

[Rlynoyb · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book is very different. I really enjoyed it although I wish the end had been a little different. So many times I wished Lisa would have gotten Matty out of her life. He was so horrible; however, the character was well written as I have seen the type of mental abuse he inflicted and it is horrifying. My hope is this story will help women to learn how to be strong and stand up to this type of abuse.

[Kimberly · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Although this book started off good it quickly becomes slow paced the main character mainly babbling. Just a blah read.

[Alice Grix · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Thank you for this totally different book. I enjoyed it so much, as I got deeper and deeper into her tale. I went back to something I haven't done for ages. The old did he, didn't he, did she etc. Brilliant.

[Linda Nell · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I really enjoyed this psychological thriller. It'snot stricly the term I would use because I wouldn't want to categorise it too narrowly. At its core is the question of how and at whose hands someone died. There is the thread of domestic abuse and how it slowly and subtly escalates, in such a way that the woman unwittingly crosses some invisible line which makes it maddeningly difficult to escape the trap. The narrative kept me hooked all the way. What made this more than just another of the ubiquitous novels centred around an abusive relationship, was the interesting characters around the edges of the main story. They were all involved to a greater or lesser degree, and all were interesting to me. Doughty writes well too. 3.5 stars rounded up for the audiobook narrated by Olivia Dowd.