The Girl on the Train

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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. 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

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.

"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 *