Off the Rails: The Inside Story of HS2

A full account of the failed High-Speed 2 rail project – which has been dogged by mismanagement, political interference and soaring costs – drawing on interviews with politicians, engineers and ordinary people affected by its collapse. Gimson unpacks what has been the backdrop to people’s lives for nearly two decades, highlighting a 12-year-old, told her house was to be flattened, who is now a 29-year-old still seeing a building site today. “A story of equal-opportunities failure to which every part of the British establishment has contributed… Read this book with a stiff drink,” said Literary Review.