Mastering the art of the unreliable narrator, Hawkins’s bestselling psychological thriller about a woman who witnesses an unspeakable act from a moving train delves deep into the darkest recesses of the human soul.
Rachel Watson; drink-addled, unemployed, heartbroken. Her daily, soulless commute from suburbia to Euston only heightens the agony, the journey repetitively taking her past the scene of her old life, a life now occupied by another woman. In her pain, Rachel builds a fantasy, but when that fantasy is shattered by her witness to something no-one should ever see, everything she knows has to change and no longer will she just be The Girl on the Train.
In hardback, Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train was the undoubted Waterstones smash-hit of 2015, emerging from the pack of Gone Girl-esque ‘amnesia thrillers’ as a remarkable success in its own right.
Released now as a tie-in paperback to Tate Taylor’s film adaptation, we invite you to experience the chilling, fractured world of Rachel Watson, her scarily fumbling attempts at amateur detection (a ‘Watson lacking a Holmes’, as the Financial Times so succinctly put it) only succeeding in dragging her into the mire of suspicion.
With no sense at all of an absolute truth – Rachel, and everyone she encounters, prove to be dizzyingly unreliable narrators – The Girl on the Train is a novel of mounting dread and unease, brilliantly voiced by previous-financial journalist Paula Hawkins in her breakout thriller triumph. And for those who choose to read this on their early morning train, just who is that person, sitting opposite you?
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 9780552779777
Number of pages: 432
Weight: 299 g
Dimensions: 199 x 128 x 26 mm
"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
Thoroughly enjoyed The Girl on the Train but I am a huge Paula Hawkins fan! I found it fast paced and thrilling, not knowing where the story was going to take me next. There are a few twists that surprised me. I have... More
i just loved this book from the moment that i started it to the last page it was just fantastic . I could not help but think about the book when i was not reading it and i always feel that this is the sign of a great... More
I loved this book. It was not what I was expecting at all.
The normal everyday events of commuting, life in suburbia, and the making and breaking of relationships make the events that unfold even more un-quieting,...
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