• Midnight Train to Prague

  • A Novel
  • By: Carol Windley
  • Narrated by: Kate Reading
  • Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (42 ratings)

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Midnight Train to Prague

By: Carol Windley
Narrated by: Kate Reading
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Publisher's summary

With shades of Amy Bloom’s Away, Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See, and Shirley Hazzard’s classic The Bay of Noon, Carol Windley’s breakout is a timeless tale of friendship, romance, betrayal, and survival set in a Europe torn apart by world war.

The acclaimed author of Home Schooling returns with Midnight Train to Prague, a timeless tale of friendship, romance, betrayal, and survival that spans the turbulent decades of the 20th century, through two world wars and between countries and continents.

In 1927, as Natalia Faber travels from Berlin to Prague with her mother, their train is delayed in Saxon Switzerland. In the brief time the train is idle, Natalia learns the truth about her father - who she believed died during her infancy - and meets a remarkable woman named Dr. Magdalena Schaeffer, whose family will become a significant part of her future. Shaken by these events, Natalia arrives at a spa on the shore of Lake Hevíz in Hungary. Here, she meets Count Miklós Andorján, a journalist and adventurer. The following year, they will marry.

Years later, Germany has invaded Russia. When Miklós fails to return from the eastern front, Natalia goes to Prague to wait for him. With a pack of tarot cards, she sets up shop as a fortune teller, and she meets Anna Schaeffer, the daughter of the woman she met decades earlier on that stalled train. The Nazis accuse Natalia of spying, and she is sent to a concentration camp. Though they are separated, her friendship with Anna grows as they fight to survive and to be reunited with their families. 

©2020 Carol Windley (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing
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Would Never Recommend

Jumped around so much. I found it very unknowable. I loves historical fiction, but not this time

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Is there a plot? Misleading title.

This book should be retitled, I suggest "Book of
unlikely coincidences and free association ramblings"

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No fire

The first four chapters were a boring recitation of events. I gave up and decided not to finish.

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  • L SEED
  • 07-14-23

Don’t bother

Narrator has the most monotone voice even and is so boring you’ll fall asleep poor story too

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  • Frances
  • 05-03-23

don't bother

i persevered fir a full half hour with this book. found there was very little story but lots of place names as well as scenic description.

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  • Mrs. Susan K. Dale
  • 02-06-23

Midnight train to Prague

Sadly narrators voice made it hard listening with hard edge & over pronunciation that I could not enjoy the story

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  • Suzi Walsh
  • 11-20-22

Great story

Really enjoyed this book.Narration very good Overall interesting and very easy to listen to .

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  • bigboi2346a
  • 10-23-22

Did not like the readers voice

stopped after 10 seconds. I really did not like the reading voice. each word seemed so over pronounced, a bit robotic.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 10-17-22

Not as impressive as the title suggests

I found it hard to follow this story. It was probably a diary that did not turn into a well written novel. It moved me, as any story about the second world war would. I appreciate that the author may have wanted to honor and name people that probably really existed. The narrator reading the book was not great.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 04-29-22

Confusing

A well read book but with a confusing plot that was a bit hard to follow at times. It eventually all came together and made sense at the end.
Not a personal favourite of mine.

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  • Amazon Customer
  • 04-15-22

Wonderful

This was a well written story. Very well narrated by Kate Reading. I truly enjoyed this from start to finish. If you like this genre of story you will enjoy this.

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