The Girl on the Train

Author Paula Hawkins
Narrator India Fisher, Louise Brealey, Clare Corbett
Publisher Transworld
Publish Date 15 January 2015
Run Time 10 hours and 57 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Psychological thriller, Thriller / suspense fiction.

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Brought to you by Penguin.

Winner of the 2016 Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year.

Includes an exclusive extract from Paula Hawkins' scorching new thriller A Slow Fire Burning, read by Rosamund Pike.

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...

'Gripping, enthralling - a top-notch thriller and a compulsive read.' SJ Watson, bestselling author of BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP

©2015 Paula Hawkins (P)2015 Penguin Audio

Critics Review

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

Springs new surprises on us . . .Pulses will be quickened

The Good Book Guide

The Girl on the Train has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller since Gone Girl

New York Times

Halfway through and I can't stop reading it. My kinda thriller!

Tweet from Armistead Maupin

it's BLIDDY FABLISS, isn't it! A long long time since a book gripped me like this

Tweet from Marian Keyes

The Girl on the Train is one of those delicious thrillers that can be devoured in four sittings, that's two return journeys on a typical train trip! There's a whiff of Agatha Christie and a dollop of Gone Girl with plenty of blind alleys that we happily wander up and get lost in. Pick it up, solve the crime and pass it on . . .

Ryan Tubridy

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