The Girl on the Train

Paula Hawkins

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Black Swan
02 May 2016

Fiction & Literature; Crime & Mystery

ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- A gripping, most unsettling Hitchcockian thriller! Three women - Rachel, Megan and Anna narrate events in the lead up to and following a disappearance. With continuous plot twists and red herrings that could rival those in an Agatha Christie mystery, the question 'who can you trust?' will keep you second guessing until the end. An incredibly exciting and suspenseful read. Jessica Slade

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. 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…

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By: Paula Hawkins
Imprint: Black Swan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 283g
ISBN: 9780552779777
ISBN 10: 0552779776
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 02 May 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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. The Girl on the Train is her first thriller.

Reviews for The Girl on the Train

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 * achieves a sinister poetry . . . Hawkins keeps the nastiest twist for last * Financial Times * 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 * The thriller scene will have to up its game if it's to match Hawkins this year * Observer * Really great suspense novel. Kept me up most of the night. The alcoholic narrator is dead perfect. * STEPHEN KING *