The Girl on the Train

“Really great suspense novel. Kept me up most of the night. The alcoholic narrator is dead perfect.” (STEPHEN KING)
“The thriller scene will have to up its game if it’s to match Hawkins this year” (Observer)
“A complex and increasingly chilling tale courtesy of a number of first-person narratives that will wrong-foot even the most experienced of crime fiction readers” (Irish Times)
“achieves a sinister poetry . . . Hawkins keeps the nastiest twist for last” (Financial Times)
“Hawkins’ masterful deployment of unwittingly unreliable narration to evoke the aftershocks of abuse and trauma is a powerful way of exploring women’s marginalization” (Huffington Post)About the Author
Paula Hawkins worked as a journalist for fifteen years before turning her hand to fiction. Born and brought up in Zimbabwe, Paula moved to London in 1989 and has lived there ever since. Her first thriller, The Girl on the Train, has been published in over forty languages, has been a No.1 bestseller around the world and is now a major motion picture starring Emily Blunt. Into the Water is her second thriller.THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER.
YOU DON’T KNOW HER. BUT SHE KNOWS YOU.
Rear Window meets Gone Girl, in this exceptional and startling psychological thriller
‘Gripping, enthralling – a top-notch thriller and a compulsive read’
S J 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. Shes even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their lifeas she sees itis perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy.
And then she sees something shocking. Its only a minute until the train moves on, but its enough.
Now everythings changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives shes only watched from afar.
Now theyll see; shes much more than just the girl on the train