Customer Reviews
An Ok read - By: , 24 Jan 2005 
I enjoy Susan Salllis books, finding them easy to read & she invariably introduces characters with whom you can relate & become fond of throughout the course of the book. Time of Arrival is not in her usual style & I found the characters quite unappealing, maybe because the book is set in the 1950s it didn't have the sense of history & romance that many of her other books do. I was disappointed by this book.
Don't miss this one - By: Mrs L Hover, 21 Jan 2003 
I have never read one of Susan Salllis' book before, but I shalll read every one now! This book is a wonderful trip back in time to the romantic age of the steam railway. The book is so well written that the characters unfold beautifully & we learn about each one in turn, at just the right moment in the story. The characters are so beleivable I felt lost when I finished the book. This book has major feel good factor & will brighten up those drab Winter nights.
If you only read one book this year make it this one & you won't be disapointed!
Time of arrival - By: , 02 Jul 2002 
People who start out strangers who are travelling on a train jouney, slip into comfortable & sometimes uncomfortable knowledge about themselves, & their travelling companions.
Staff on this train journey show respect for each other but also contempt for the positions of those in authority. Men who have returned to the train company they worked for before the war,now return to thier familular lives that were interupted by WW2, they have to work thru the changes in thier homelife as well. Things in ther home lives have changed but the thrill of the steam age still holds a mesmeric facination.
Passengers on the journey look at there lives & feel a sense of time to change.Others are looking for the answers which would alter there exsistence. All are thrown together in an horrific disaster. This set the stage for those who were thought to be the frailest to show there strength of character.The strongest are made to feel meek,and there are those who now look at life thru a whole new window.
Follow these intricate stories, feel their sorrow & joy. but above alll, look beyond what they as people think are mundane about there lives, until the disaster changes them for life.
