The Crash

Paris, Christmas 1933. The Strasbourg express crashes into a local train outside Paris, leaving wreckage and broken bodies strewn on the tracks. On board is Gilles Malroux. In the chaos and confusion, he swaps his identity papers with a stranger, steals a suitcase and vanishes.

Gilles sister Camille, notified of the accident, rushes to the hospital to find a stranger wrapped in bandages in her brothers place. In her desperate search to find Gilles, she must now unravel a web of lies and corruption. Who is this man, the one who holds the key to everything, and the one Camille finds she is learning to love? And what danger is she racing towards?

The Crash is a masterpiece of fiction: intricately researched, beautifully written, and both a deeply moving love story and nuanced examination of identity and survival.

Praise for Kate Furnivalls storytelling:
A masterclass in historical fiction writing. An absolute triumph!DINAH JEFFERIES
Kate Furnivall has really steeped herself in the period and faced the horrors of those timesDILLY COURT
The plotting is ingenious and the writing beautifully atmospheric GILL PAUL
Unforgettable characters negotiate desperate times in this vivid, brave and suspenseful novelRACHEL HORE
Kate Furnivall has a gift for description, heartbreak and joyJANE CORRY
A harrowing and compelling portraitFIONA VALPY