The Girl on the Train
The multi-million-copy global phenomenon
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4.4 • 192 Ratings
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
THE RUNAWAY GLOBAL BESTSELLER
***Includes a preview of Paula's scorching new thriller, A Slow Fire Burning ***
'Gripping, enthralling - a top-notch thriller and a compulsive read.' SJ Watson, bestselling author of BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP
Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. 'Jess and Jason', she calls them. Their life - as she sees it - is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy.
And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough.
Now everything's changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she's only watched from afar.
Now they'll see; she's much more than just the girl on the train...
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
We couldn’t wait to pick up this nail-biting psychological thriller every free moment we got. The Girl on the Train hurtles along, building up just the right amount of fear and menace along the way. Rachel is a mess, an alcoholic commuter pining for her ex-husband—who’s moved on with a new wife and a baby. As she rides the train back and forth from the suburbs to London each day, she obsesses about the seemingly perfect life of the couple who lives in a cozy row house along the train tracks. But looks can be deceiving, and author Paula Hawkins does a stunning job playing with our perceptions.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Rachel Watson, the principal narrator of Hawkins's psychologically astute debut, is obsessed with her ex-husband, Tom. She's having a hard time putting the past behind her, especially since she confronts it daily, during the hourlong commute to London from her rented room in Ashbury, Oxfordshire, when her train passes the Victorian house she once shared with Tom. She also frequently spies an attractive couple, four doors down from her former home, who she imagines to be enjoying the happily-ever-after that eluded her. Then, suddenly, the woman, pixie-ish blonde Megan Hipwell, vanishes only to turn up on the front page of the tabloids as missing. The police want to question Rachel, after Anna, Tom's new wife, tells them that Rachel was in the area drunkenly out of control around the time of Megan's disappearance. Hawkins, formerly deputy personal finance editor of the Times of London, deftly shifts between the accounts of the addled Rachel, as she desperately tries to remember what happened, Megan, and, eventually, Anna, for maximum suspense. The surprise-packed narratives hurtle toward a stunning climax, horrifying as a train wreck and just as riveting.
Customer Reviews
Very good
Was a very capturing and interesting read. Was hard putting it down
Fabulous and full of suspense
Loved this book. Interesting characters. Keeps you guessing right until the end. Totally and utterly recommend but be warned you won't want to put it down.
2 stars or less
What? Thought you are Tom Ridder?
This Tom does not have a full characteristics as he should've be. A person in reality would have a more complex traits. Evils would have an experience or a reason that made it to become such evil.
Megan, the character, is too simple in mind, I mean that's how the author describes this woman, a woman would've been more struggle in mind after killing her own child.
Not scratching the itchy part in my brain, not deep enough for a thriller.