Railsong: A Novel Dolly Alderton a young woman’s secret power

a young woman’s secret power to raise the dead plunges her into the dangerous and glamorous world of the Sainted King’s royal court

but Willa knows she isn’t

Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities

forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader

Railsong: A Novel Dolly Alderton a young woman’s secret power"Magnificent . . . I would follow Miss Chitol to the ends of the earth." Kamila Shamsie "Profoundly tender [and] vigorously alive to the currents of national change." Megha Majumdar A breathtaking novel about a woman forging a life for herself on the railways, Railsong is the heartwarming story of an individual coming of age amid the social and political upheavals of twentieth century India. In a newly independent India charged with national vigour,