The Girl on the Train

The Girl on the Train is a 2015 psychological thriller novel by British author Paula Hawkins that tells three separate women's stories concerning relationship problems (caused by three coercive/controlling males) and, for the main protagonist, drinking. The novel debuted at number one on The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 2015 list (print and e-book) on February 1, 2015, and remained there for 13 weeks till April 2015.

Rachel Watson in Paula Hawkins' The Girl on the Train struggles with her obsessive affections for her ex-husband. Rachel manages to sort through her emotions and concerns during her daily trip by train from Oxfordshire to London as she attempts to recover after their relationship ends. Every day on the journey, the train passes by the house she used to share with her ex. Rachel redirects her focus to a residence near her previous home, occupied by a man and a woman she imagines are happy and profoundly in love, in an attempt to distract herself from the reality of their separation.

Rachel's life is flipped upside down when the lady goes missing and her absence becomes fodder for the local newspapers. The Girl on the Train is a thrilling look at one woman's incapacity to cope with her history, and it articulates a disturbing reality about violence and love.

Detailed information:

Author: Paula Hawkins

Language: English
Genre: Thriller

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