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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Doubleday; First Edition edition (15 Jan. 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0857522310
  • ISBN-13: 978-0857522313
  • Product Dimensions: 16.2 x 3 x 24 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6,282 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Really great suspense novel. Kept 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)

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THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER.

YOU DON'T KNOW HER. BUT SHE KNOWS YOU.

Rear Window meets Gone Girl, in this exceptional and startling psychological thriller

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38 of 40 people found the following review helpful
I Should HaveTrusted my Instinct and Put it Down
By RoverT on 12 July 2015
Format: Hardcover Verified Purchase
Influenced by the popularity of this book, not to mention the reviews, I thought this would be a great story; alas, in my opinion, it wasn't. If a story hasn't hooked me by a third of the way through, it tends to go back on the shelf and yet I persevered with this one - maybe because I thought all those great reviews couldn't be wrong - but I regretted the effort of making it to the end. I didn't like the way it was written; it felt clunky with a narrative that was basic and pedestrian and nor did I believe in the characters or their actions. Some of the dialogue was amateurish and I couldn't help thinking that the story was told through the eyes of three characters to hide the limitations of the vocabulary of the author. I appreciate that I'm in a small minority, but you can only report what you think.
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284 of 314 people found the following review helpful
A journey that delivers.
By Ann Fairweather TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on 25 Jan. 2015
Format: Hardcover
All and everyone seem intent on comparing this new thriller to 'Gone Girl'. It compares only in as much as it is the same genre, now called 'domestic noir', but that's it. I could never read GG because of how boring and un-gripping the prose was, (A book for once saved by the film version!) but this one I could not stop reading, or wish I could have read in one sitting. Totally the kind of book, if read on the train, that will make you miss your stop! Rachel, the main character, is first of all, quite gripping from the start, because she drinks too much for her own good and her life is in tatters. Always interesting. She dreams about the charmed life of a seemingly perfect couple she sees from the train every day, but then when you learn she used to live down the same road, you cannot fail to be hooked as something sounds very wrong. Later the narration switches to Anna, then Megan. All three sides of the same story. All equally fascinating. It is an excellent, absolutely riveting plot right to the very end. If I had a criticism, it would be that the three heroines are light-years away from any feminist values, as the three of them have their whole world rotating around men to care for them. Very 1950's. But that does not at all diminishes the quality of the story. Addictive and thrilling.
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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Does not live up to the hype
By S.L. on 17 April 2015
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Was looking forward to this after hearing so much about it, but unfortunately found it a let down and dare I say it ....boring....not what you expect from a 'thriller'. Not one of the characters elicited any sympathy so I felt it difficult to become involved in their lives. I fast forwarded many of the unnecessarily long winded passages to get to the end, which didn't produce any surprises. Top marks to the publicist.
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25 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Slow Train Speeds Up
By The Just-About-Average Ms. M on 29 April 2015
Format: Kindle Edition
I have no idea why I am bothering to leave a review for a book that already has more than 3,500 reviews—surely enough folks have left their opinions by now so that mine is irrelevant. But still…

First off, I wonder about the title, when the rider on the train left her girlhood behind her quite some time ago, and is now a thirtyish, pudgy, lank-haired and utterly forgettable and serious alcoholic. Perhaps “The Drunk on the Train” or even “The Woman on the Train” does not have the same resonance, and certainly loses the subliminal tie-in to “Gone Girl” that so many people have gone on and on about. So we have a girl on the train. Very well.

Many reviews track the plot very thoroughly, so go read those for the storyline. I’m going to share my thoughts primarily about the characters, and then the story arc as a whole. For those of you in my august age group who remember Hitchcock’s “Rear Window,” and the much more youthful ones who saw “Disturbia,” I think you’ll agree that the characters in both movies who were such voyeurs and did some risky things were at least likeable, and we cheered for them to succeed against the bad guys. I did not like the characters in this book, none of them, female or male. I thought whatever they did to be supremely idiotic, and found myself hoping they would meet a Very Bad End…and soon. And yet, I kept reading, tapping those Kindle pages, one right after the other.

Rachel’s appalling alcoholism, her weaknesses and bargain-basement self-esteem led to her riding the train in the first place to a job that no longer existed because of her drinking. She fantasized about a couple whose terrace she saw from her train window, and whose house was five doors down from the one she had shared with her ex-husband.Read more ›
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258 of 292 people found the following review helpful
A thriller that rockets along
By Kate TOP 500 REVIEWER on 20 Feb. 2015
Format: Hardcover
Rachel takes the same train into London every morning and every day it stops at the same signal. If she manages to sit on the right side of the train, grabbing her favourite seat, she is often able to catch a glance of the perfect couple. She doesn't know their names but to Rachel they are Jess and Jason and around them she has spun a web of perfect happiness. There's another reason why this row of houses obsesses Rachel - a few doors down from Jess and Jason lives Rachel's ex-husband Tom along with his new family, his wife Anna and their baby. But they don't concern Rachel. She just wants a glimpse into the lives of Jess and Jason. Until the day comes when Rachel sees Jess in her garden in the arms of another man. Overwhelmed by anxiety, Rachel is determined to find out the identity of this man for whom Jess would risk her perfect life.

And then everything falls to pieces. Rachel wakes up one morning with no recollection of arriving home the night before. She is bruised and bloody. She then discovers that Jess, or Megan as Rachel now discovers she is really called, is missing, gone without a trace. Rachel cannot keep quiet. She has to know what has happened, she needs to reclaim her lost hours, and she will let nothing stand in her way as she pursues the truth to the bitter end.

That's about as much as I want to mention of the plot as there is a great deal more to it than that and The Girl on the Train is a psychological thriller that relies on shocking its readers, steering them round blind bends, teasing them with twists. Adding to the uncertainty is the structure of the book - it is divided into three first person narratives, focusing on the stories of the novel's women - Rachel, Megan and Anna.Read more ›
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