The #1 New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Book of the Year, now a major motion picture.
The debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives.
“Nothing is more addicting than The Girl on the Train.”—Vanity Fair
“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
“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 Boston Globe
“Gone Girl fans will devour this psychological thriller.”—People
EVERY DAY THE SAME
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. 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.
UNTIL TODAY
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 goes to the police. But is she really as unreliable as they say? Soon she is deeply entangled not only in the investigation but in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month, January 2015: Intersecting, overlapping, not-quite-what-they-seem lives. Jealousies and betrayals and wounded hearts. A haunting unease that clutches and won’t let go. All this and more helps propel Paula Hawkins’s addictive debut into a new stratum of the psychological thriller genre. At times, I couldn’t help but think: Hitchcockian. From the opening line, the reader knows what they’re in for: “She’s buried beneath a silver birch tree, down towards the old train tracks...” But Hawkins teases out the mystery with a veteran’s finesse. The “girl on the train” is Rachel, who commutes into London and back each day, rolling past the backyard of a happy-looking couple she names Jess and Jason. Then one day Rachel sees “Jess” kissing another man. The day after that, Jess goes missing. The story is told from three character’s not-to-be-trusted perspectives: Rachel, who mourns the loss of her former life with the help of canned gin and tonics; Megan (aka Jess); and Anna, Rachel’s ex-husband’s wife, who happens to be Jess/Megan’s neighbor. Rachel’s voyeuristic yearning for the seemingly idyllic life of Jess and Jason lures her closer and closer to the investigation into Jess/Megan’s disappearance, and closer to a deeper understanding of who she really is. And who she isn’t. This is a book to be devoured. -Neal Thompson
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Book Description Compact Disc. Condition: new. Compact Disc. THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER.YOU DON'T KNOW HER. BUT SHE KNOWS YOU.Rear Window meets Gone Girl, in this exceptional and startling psychological thrillerTHE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER.YOU DON'T KNOW HER. BUT SHE KNOWS YOU.Rear Window meets Gone Girl, in this exceptional and startling psychological thriller'Gripping, enthralling - a top-notch thriller and a compulsive read'S J WATSON, bestselling author of Before I Go To SleepRachel 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. BUT SHE KNOWS YOU.Rear Window meets Gone Girl, in this exceptional and startling psychological thriller'Gripping, enthralling - a top-notch thriller and a compulsive read' S J WATSON, bestselling author of Before I Go To SleepRachel catches the same commuter train every morning. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781846574399
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Book Description Condition: New. 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. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 228. . 2012. Audio CD. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9781846574399
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Book Description Compact Disc. Condition: new. Compact Disc. THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER.YOU DON'T KNOW HER. BUT SHE KNOWS YOU.Rear Window meets Gone Girl, in this exceptional and startling psychological thrillerTHE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER.YOU DON'T KNOW HER. BUT SHE KNOWS YOU.Rear Window meets Gone Girl, in this exceptional and startling psychological thriller'Gripping, enthralling - a top-notch thriller and a compulsive read'S J WATSON, bestselling author of Before I Go To SleepRachel 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. BUT SHE KNOWS YOU.Rear Window meets Gone Girl, in this exceptional and startling psychological thriller'Gripping, enthralling - a top-notch thriller and a compulsive read' S J WATSON, bestselling author of Before I Go To SleepRachel catches the same commuter train every morning. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781846574399