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’m not a fan of first-person present-tense fiction writing, so this is a bit of a slog. The main character seems pretty woe-is-me, which I don’t have a lot of patience for. However, the writing is good and the back-story development proceeds apace.
There was a surprising ending. Other than that, it really dragged.
Kept me guessing.
I liked this book beginning to end. It was intriguing and kept my interest
Weird
The charactors are all so buggered up,it is tough to get through the book.
Loved it!
One word: WONDERFUL! If you like good psychological books, Paula Hawkins wrote a little marvel, one of the best psychological thrillers I read in years! I wouldn’t say it’s a thriller, more a very good story with lots of mysteries, you can’t stop reading it because the writer’s style is very good and you want to know what happened. The end, the …
Very, very good psychological thriller!
One of those stories, you just have to read.
The Girl on the Train is a debut psychological thriller that is sure to alter the way you view other people and the way they live their lives.
There was so much hype around The Girl on the Train, I just had to read it, even though I didn’t want to. When I saw 77,000 people had reviewed it on Amazon – …
It ended up being disappointing
This is the book that got me hooked on psychological thrillers! I highly recommend the audio version as the narrator is excellent. Living inside someone else’s brain for a few days truly makes you wonder at what is real, what is fantasy, and what is really happening!!
This book was just okay in my opinion. Overall I found that I didn’t “like” any of the characters! They were all so messed up and there was so much going on it was hard to believe and it portrayed women in a not so pretty light, and that’s not something I usually notice about books. It seemed like the women were much too dependent and doting on …
A very popular book, but maybe for younger generations. My senior book club generally did not enjoy it, but younger guests liked it.
So sad that there are really people like this. Held my attention, although hard to keep track of characters.
Entertaining but kind of flops near the end.
Boring
Read this in two days – perfect example of how to write a page-turning thriller with interesting characters. Surely it should have been called the Woman on the Train?
I probably would have enjoyed it more had I read it vs listening to the audiobook. I may go back and read it to see if I like it better.
Hard for me to follow. Not my kind of book.