Narrator's mother dies when someone knocks her down while jumping off a train

[Kelly]

Literary fiction or possibly mystery. This is a minor plot point or even an aside in a book I've read sometime in the past ten years. I can't remember anything else about the book, so I don't know how it fits in with the rest of the plot. When the narrator is a young boy his mother is waiting on a train platform (in England, I think, but possibly in America) and someone jumps off the train before it comes to a complete stop, knocks her over, and she hits her head and dies. I think the passage about this starts off with something along the lines of "There is always a certain type of person who cannot wait for the train to stop completely but must show his bravado by jumping off onto the platform..." After his mother's death I think the narrator and his father live in sort of detached bachelor solitude. I think the book is set in the first half of the 20th century, and possibly was written in this era too, but I could be wrong about that.

[Kate]

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[Kelly]

Thanks Kay! I kind of forgot I posted this actually, so I appreciate you commenting to remind me!

[Kelly]

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[Kelly]

still looking! It's still driving me crazy.