The Girl on the Train
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The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
THE RUNAWAY GLOBAL BESTSELLER 'Really great suspense novel. Kept me up most of the night. The alcoholic narrator is dead perfect' STEPHEN KING 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' ADDICTIVE NEW THRILLER, THE BLUE HOUR IS AVAILABLE NOW***
Really great suspense novelKept 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 *
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 *
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. Her first thriller, The Girl on the Train, has been a global phenomenon, selling 23 million copies worldwide. Published in over forty languages, it has been a No.1 bestseller around the world and was a No.1 box office hit film starring Emily Blunt.
Into the Water, her second stand-alone thriller, has also been a global No.1 bestseller, spending twenty weeks in the Sunday Times hardback fiction Top 10 bestseller list, and six weeks at No.1.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780552779777 |
| ISBN 10 | 0552779776 |
| Title | The Girl on the Train |
| Author | Paula Hawkins |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 2016-05-05 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Prizes | Winner of WH Smith Book of the Year 2015, Winner of Dead Good Recommends Award for Most Recommended Book 2015, Short-listed for British Book Industry Awards Fiction Book of the Year 2016, Short-listed for Waterstones Book of the Year 2015 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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