
The Girl on the Train
Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction, Crime, Thrillers & True Crime, Crime & Thrillers | Paperback Published on: 05/05/2016
£9.99
Synopsis
*A tiding. Bad tidings. I can see them now, black against the sun. Not the birds. Something else. Someone’s coming. Someone is speaking to me. Now look. Now look what you made me do.*
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: 299g
- Dimensions: 199 x 128 x 26 mm