Paula Hawkins worked as a journalist for fifteen years before turning her hand to fiction. The Girl on the Train is her first thriller. An international #1 bestseller, published in 50 countries and over 40 languages, it has sold over 11 million copies worldwide and has been adapted into a major motion picture starring Emily Blunt. Hawkins was born in Zimbabwe and now lives in London.
"The Girl on the Train has more fun with unreliable narration than
any chiller since Gone Girl. . . . The Girl on the Train is liable
to draw a large, bedazzled readership too. . . . The Girl on the
Train is full of back-stabbing, none of it literal."--Janet Maslin,
The New York Times "The Girl on the Train marries movie noir with
novelistic trickery. . . hang on tight. You'll be surprised by what
horrors lurk around the bend."--USA Today "Like its train, the
story blasts through the stagnation of these lives in suburban
London and the reader cannot help but turn pages. . . . The welcome
echoes ofRear Window throughout the story and its propulsive
narrative make The Girl on the Train an absorbing read."--The
Boston Globe "[The Girl on the Train] pulls off a thriller's
toughest trick: carefully assembling everything we think we know,
until it reveals the one thing we didn't see
coming."--Entertainment Weekly "Gone Girl fans will devour this
psychological thriller. . . . Hawkins's debut ends with a twist
that no one--least of all its victims--could have seen
coming."--People "Given the number of titles that are declared to
be 'the next' of a bestseller . . . book fans have every right to
be wary. But Paula Hawkins' novel The Girl on the Train just might
have earned the title of 'the next Gone Girl."--Christian Science
Monitor "Hawkins's taut story roars along at the pace of, well, a
high-speed train. ...Hawkins delivers a smart, searing thriller
that offers readers a 360-degree view of lust, love, marriage and
divorce."--Good Housekeeping "There's nothing like a possible
murder to take the humdrum out of your daily
commute."--Cosmopolitan "Paula Hawkins has come up with an
ingenious slant on the currently fashionable amnesia thriller. . .
. Hawkins juggles perspectives and timescales with great skill, and
considerable suspense builds up along with empathy for an unusual
central character."--The Guardian "Paula Hawkins deftly imbues her
debut psychological thriller with inventive twists and a shocking
denouement. ... Hawkins delivers an original debut that keeps the
exciting momentum of The Girl on the Train going until the last
page."--Denver Post "The Girl on the Train, Hawkins's first
thriller, is well-written and ingeniously constructed." - The
Washington Post "The novel is at its best in the moment of maximum
confusion, when neither the reader nor the narrators know what is
occurring" - The Financial Times "This fresh take on Hitchcock's
Rear Window is getting raves and will likely be one of the biggest
debuts of the year."--Omaha World-Herald "Hawkins's tale of love,
regret, violence and forgetting is an engrossing psychological
thriller with plenty of surprises. . . . The novel gets harder and
harder to put down as the story screeches toward its unexpected
ending."--Minneapolis Star Tribune "A gripping,
down-the-rabbit-hole thriller."--Entertainment Weekly Hotlist "The
Thriller So Engrossing, You'll Pray for Snow: Send in the
blizzards, because nothing as mundane as work, school or walking
the dog should distract you from this debut thriller. A natural fit
for fans of Gone Girl-style unreliable narrators and twisty,
fast-moving plots, The Girl on the Train will have you racing
through the pages."--Oprah.com "It's difficult to say too much more
about the plot of The Girl on the Train; like all thrillers, it's
best for readers to dive in spoiler-free. This is a debut
novel--Hawkins is a journalist by training--but it doesn't read
like the work of someone new to suspense. The novel is perfectly
paced, from its arresting beginning to its twist ending; it's not
an easy book to put down. . . . . What really makes The Girl on the
Train such a gripping novel is Hawkins' remarkable understanding of
the limits of human knowledge, and the degree to which memory and
imagination can become confused."--NPR.org "[L]ike Gone Girl,
Hawkins's book is a highly addictive novel about a lonely divorcee
who gets caught up in the disappearance of a woman whom she had
been surreptitiously watching. And beyond the Gone Girl
comparisons, this book has legs of its own."--GQ.com "Paula
Hawkins' thriller is a shocking ride." -US Weekly
"An ex-wife indulges her voyeuristic tendencies in Paula Hawkins's
film-ready The Girl on the Train. In the post-Gone Girl era, crimes
of love aren't determined by body counts or broken hearts, but by
who controls the story line." -Vogue "The Girl on the Train [is] a
harrowing new suspense novel...a complex and thoroughly chilling
psychological thriller... The Girl on the Train is one of those
books where you can't wait -- yet almost can't bear -- to turn the
page. It's a stunning novel of dread." -New York Daily News "The
Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins is a psychologically gripping
debut that delivers." -The Missourian "The Girl on the Train is the
kind of slippery, thrilling read that only comes around every few
years (see Gone Girl)." -BookPage "Hawkins, a former journalist, is
a witty, sharp writer with a gift for creating complex female
characters." -Cleveland Plain Dealer "The Girl on the Train is as
tautly constructed as Gone Girl or A.S.A. Harrison'sThe Silent
Wife, and has something more: a main character who is all screwed
up but sympathetic nonetheless. Broken, but dear. . . . No matter
how well it's written, a suspense novel can fall apart in the last
pages, with an overly contrived or unbelievable ending. Here, The
Girl on the Train shines, with its mystery resolved by a left-field
plot twist that works, followed, surprisingly, by what you might
call a happy ending."--Newsday "I'm calling it now: The Girl on the
Train is the next Gone Girl. Paula Hawkins's highly anticipated
debut novel is a dark, gripping thriller with the shocking ending
you crave in a noir-ish mystery." -Bustle "Rachel takes the same
train into London every day, daydreaming about the lives of the
occupants in the homes she passes. But when she sees something
unsettling from her window one morning, it sets in motion a
chilling series of events that make her question whom she can
really trust."--Woman's Day "Hawkins's debut novel is a tangle of
unreliable narrators, but what will have readers talking is her
deft handling of twists and turns and her eerily fine-tuned
narrative. This is one creepy, dark thriller. . . . The book is
smartly paced and delightfully complex. Just when it seems Hawkins
is leading us one way, Rachel, Anna, or Megan change the game.
Nothing can be taken for granted in The Girl on the Train, not even
the account of the girl herself."--Las Vegas Weekly
"Psychologically astute debut . . . The surprise-packed narratives
hurtle toward a stunning climax, horrifying as a train wreck and
just as riveting."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "[A]
chilling, assured debut. . . . Even the most astute readers will be
in for a shock as Hawkins slowly unspools the facts, exposing the
harsh realities of love and obsession's inescapable links to
violence."--Kirkus (starred review) "intricate, multilayered
psychological suspense debut, from a staggered timeline and three
distinct female narrators. Rachel, who is unabashed in her darker
instincts, anchors the narrative. Readers will fear, pity,
sympathize and root for her, though she's not always understandable
or trustworthy. . . . En route to a terrorizing and twisted
conclusion, all three women--and the men with whom they share their
lives--are forced to dismantle their delusions about others and
themselves, their choices and their respective
relationships."--Shelf Awareness "This month we're gearing up for
Paula Hawkins's mystery The Girl on the Train. Its three narrators
keep readers guessing as they try to suss out who's behind one
character's shocking disappearance. Can you figure out who did it
before they do?"--Martha Stewart Living "What a thriller!"--People
Style Watch "Hawkins keeps the tension ratcheted high in this
thoroughly engrossing tale of intersecting strangers and intimate
betrayals. Kept me guessing until the very end."--Lisa Gardner, #1
New York Times-bestselling author of the Detective D. D. Warren
series "I simply could not put it down."--Tess Gerritsen, New York
Times-bestselling author of the Rizzoli and Isles series "Gripping,
enthralling--a top-notch thriller and a compulsive read."--S. J.
Watson, New York Times-bestselling author of Before I Go to Sleep
"Be ready to be spellbound, ready to become as obsessed. . . . The
Girl on the Train is the kind of book you'll want to press into the
hands of everyone you know, just so they can share your obsession
and you can relive it."--Laura Kasischke, author of The Raising
"What a group of characters, what a situation, what a book! It's
Alfred Hitchcock for a new generation and a new era."--Terry Hayes,
author of I Am Pilgrim "Artfully crafted and utterly riveting. The
Girl on the Train's clever structure and expert pacing will keep
you perched on the edge of your seat, but it's Hawkins's deft,
empathetic characterization that will leave you pondering this
harrowing, thought-provoking story about the power of memory and
the danger of envy."--Kimberly McCreight, New York
Times-bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia
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