Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller “The Girl on the Train has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller since Gone Girl. . . . [It] is liable to draw a large, bedazzled readership.”—The New York Times “Like its train, the story blasts through the stagnation of these lives in suburban London and the reader cannot help but turn pages.”—The Boston Globe “Gone Girl fans will devour this … pages.”—The Boston Globe
“Gone Girl fans will devour this psychological thriller.”—People
A debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people’s lives.
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. “Jess and Jason,” she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost.
And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. Now everything’s changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?
Compulsively readable, The Girl on the Train is an emotionally immersive, Hitchcockian thriller and an electrifying debut.
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I liked the book. I was very impressed with the characters’ mental thought processes and their reactions to places and events. It was almost like reading mental thoughts. Great book.
This book starts out ordinary, as a woman riding the same train past her old neighborhood each day, covets the loving relationship of a couple who live there. When the watched woman disappears in suspicious circumstances the same night our watcher has a drunken black out. The watcher is afraid she did something and stats investigating. Through …
This is definitely a book that takes a little bit to get into. Once you get there, it’s hard to put down. Following the characters storylines is fascinating especially when the twist at the end reveals itself. Worth reading!
This book was hard to put down!! Don’t read until you’ve put aside some time to finish!! Interesting, with lots of twists and turns, right to the very end. Very different from the movie. Most people agree the book is better.
3 women, 2 men. All connected by a terrible secret.
Excellent thriller. Will keep you guessing till the end.
It’s been a long time since I read a suspense novel and I have to say, The Girl on the Train kept me riveted to my seat. Honestly, I couldn’t read fast enough and hated to put the book down the times life interfered.
Paula Hawkins did a fantastic job not only writing 3 different women, but also writing them in 1st person. It was easy for me to …
I have enjoyed this & found it to be a real page-turner, although I’m sure the author could have cut it down by one third. The plot is realistic & believable, the characters each flawed in their own way & it makes for compulsive reading. Yet, there are parts that were really slow, a little to much irrelevant detail, but nevertheless I would …
This thriller had me engaged from page one.
I read this book in only a couple of days. The first half was read over a five hour time block. I think if you read this book say ten minutes a night or sporadically you could get quite confused. The story is told from the point of view of three women and over different time lines. I found myself going back over many chapters to check the timeline …
did not care what happens
As someone who loves watching other people I was really looking forward to reading The Girl on the Train. I thought the premise was terrific. Who hasn’t sat on a commuter train/any repetitive journey to work and imagined the lives of others as you pass by the same places day after day?
There’s this bit at the beginning which resonated, ‘I can’t …
Paula Hawkins’ “The Girl on the Train” is a frighteningly realistic journey into the mind of an alcoholic which means the murder mystery plot is disjointed. But the genius of “The Girl on the Train” is that Hawkins has managed to make this convoluted, frightening story immensely captivating.
The writing is compelling with plenty of believable …
I read this book before i watched the movie. I must admit I had difficulty keeping myself interested. I started and stopped several times and only forced myself to read it after I heard how good the movie was. I’m glad I did. It took me a while to figure out what was really going on. This has a lot of suspense and twists and turns. Ended up being …
Great book I could put it down waiting for more
I love the book I saw the movie too The movie was pretty close
Fantastic book with lots of twists and turns. Could not put it down!
I wanted to love this book but the main character was so self destructive I just didn’t like her.
I dig the reveal at the end, but other than that I couldn’t see what all the hype was about this novel. Rachel, Megan, and Anna each have their own whiny personalities that give the whole book a bit of a downer quality that makes it hard to enjoy the “Thriller” nature that is supposed to be the genre of this story.
I thought the book was a great read. I could not put it down.
This book is right up there with Gone Girl. It is in the same format jumping back in forth, but keeps you on the edge of your seat!