Paula Hawkins worked as a journalist for fifteen years before turning her hand to fiction. The Girl on the Train is her first thriller. An international #1 bestseller, published in 50 countries and over 40 languages, it has sold over 11 million copies worldwide and has been adapted into a major motion picture starring Emily Blunt. Hawkins was born in Zimbabwe and now lives in London.
“The Girl on the Train has more fun with unreliable narration
than any chiller since Gone Girl. . . . The Girl on the
Train is liable to draw a large, bedazzled readership too. . .
. The Girl on the Train is full of back-stabbing, none of
it literal.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
“The Girl on the Train 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 welcome echoes ofRear Window throughout the story
and its propulsive narrative make The Girl on the
Train an absorbing read.”—The Boston Globe
“[The Girl on the Train] pulls off a thriller's toughest trick:
carefully assembling everything we think we know, until it reveals
the one thing we didn't see coming."—Entertainment Weekly
“Gone Girl fans will devour this psychological thriller. . . .
Hawkins’s debut ends with a twist that no one—least of all its
victims—could have seen coming.”—People
“Given the number of titles that are declared to be 'the next' of a
bestseller . . . book fans have every right to be wary. But Paula
Hawkins’ novel The Girl on the Train just might have
earned the title of 'the next Gone Girl.”—Christian Science
Monitor
“Hawkins’s taut story roars along at the pace of, well, a
high-speed train. …Hawkins delivers a smart, searing thriller that
offers readers a 360-degree view of lust, love, marriage and
divorce.”—Good Housekeeping
“There’s nothing like a possible murder to take the humdrum out of
your daily commute.”—Cosmopolitan
"Paula Hawkins has come up with an ingenious slant on the currently
fashionable amnesia thriller. . . . Hawkins juggles perspectives
and timescales with great skill, and considerable suspense builds
up along with empathy for an unusual central
character."—The Guardian
“Paula Hawkins deftly imbues her debut psychological thriller with
inventive twists and a shocking denouement. … Hawkins
delivers an original debut that keeps the exciting momentum
of The Girl on the Train going until the last
page.”—Denver Post
“The Girl on the Train, Hawkins’s first thriller, is
well-written and ingeniously constructed.” – The
Washington Post
“The novel is at its best in the moment of maximum confusion, when
neither the reader nor the narrators know what is occurring”
– The Financial Times
“This fresh take on Hitchcock’s Rear Window is getting
raves and will likely be one of the biggest debuts of the
year.”—Omaha World-Herald
“Hawkins’s tale of love, regret, violence and forgetting is an
engrossing psychological thriller with plenty of surprises. . . .
The novel gets harder and harder to put down as the story screeches
toward its unexpected ending.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
“A gripping, down-the-rabbit-hole thriller.”—Entertainment Weekly
Hotlist
“The Thriller So Engrossing, You'll Pray for Snow: Send in the
blizzards, because nothing as mundane as work, school or walking
the dog should distract you from this debut thriller. A natural fit
for fans of Gone Girl-style unreliable narrators and twisty,
fast-moving plots, The Girl on the Train will have you
racing through the pages."—Oprah.com
“It's difficult to say too much more about the plot of The
Girl on the Train; like all thrillers, it's best for readers to
dive in spoiler-free. This is a debut novel—Hawkins is a journalist
by training—but it doesn't read like the work of someone new to
suspense. The novel is perfectly paced, from its arresting
beginning to its twist ending; it's not an easy book to put down. .
. . . What really makes The Girl on the Train such a
gripping novel is Hawkins' remarkable understanding of the limits
of human knowledge, and the degree to which memory and imagination
can become confused.”—NPR.org
“[L]ike Gone Girl, Hawkins's book is a highly addictive novel
about a lonely divorcee who gets caught up in the disappearance of
a woman whom she had been surreptitiously watching. And beyond the
Gone Girl comparisons, this book has legs of its own.”—GQ.com
“Paula Hawkins’ thriller is a shocking ride.” –US
Weekly
“An ex-wife indulges her voyeuristic tendencies in Paula Hawkins’s
film-ready The Girl on the Train. In the post-Gone
Girl era, crimes of love aren’t determined by body counts or
broken hearts, but by who controls the story line.”
–Vogue
“The Girl on the Train [is] a harrowing new suspense novel…a
complex and thoroughly chilling psychological thriller… The
Girl on the Train is one of those books where you can’t wait —
yet almost can’t bear — to turn the page. It’s a stunning novel of
dread.” –New York Daily News
“The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins is a psychologically
gripping debut that delivers.” –The Missourian
“The Girl on the Train is the kind of slippery, thrilling read
that only comes around every few years (see Gone Girl).”
–BookPage
“Hawkins, a former journalist, is a witty, sharp writer with a gift
for creating complex female characters.” –Cleveland Plain
Dealer
“The Girl on the Train is as tautly constructed as Gone
Girl or A.S.A. Harrison'sThe Silent Wife, and has something
more: a main character who is all screwed up but sympathetic
nonetheless. Broken, but dear. . . . No matter how well it's
written, a suspense novel can fall apart in the last pages, with an
overly contrived or unbelievable ending. Here, The Girl on the
Train shines, with its mystery resolved by a left-field plot
twist that works, followed, surprisingly, by what you might call a
happy ending.”—Newsday
“I’m calling it now: The Girl on the Train is the
next Gone Girl. Paula Hawkins’s highly anticipated debut novel
is a dark, gripping thriller with the shocking ending you crave in
a noir-ish mystery.” –Bustle
“Rachel takes the same train into London every day, daydreaming
about the lives of the occupants in the homes she passes. But when
she sees something unsettling from her window one morning, it sets
in motion a chilling series of events that make her question whom
she can really trust.”—Woman’s Day
“Hawkins’s debut novel is a tangle of unreliable narrators, but
what will have readers talking is her deft handling of twists and
turns and her eerily fine-tuned narrative. This is one creepy, dark
thriller. . . . The book is smartly paced and delightfully complex.
Just when it seems Hawkins is leading us one way, Rachel, Anna, or
Megan change the game. Nothing can be taken for granted in The
Girl on the Train, not even the account of the girl herself.”—Las
Vegas Weekly
"Psychologically astute debut . . . The surprise-packed
narratives hurtle toward a stunning climax, horrifying as a train
wreck and just as riveting."—Publishers Weekly (starred
review)
“[A] chilling, assured debut. . . . Even the most astute readers
will be in for a shock as Hawkins slowly unspools the facts,
exposing the harsh realities of love and obsession's inescapable
links to violence.”—Kirkus (starred review)
“intricate, multilayered psychological suspense debut, from a
staggered timeline and three distinct female narrators. Rachel, who
is unabashed in her darker instincts, anchors the narrative.
Readers will fear, pity, sympathize and root for her, though she's
not always understandable or trustworthy. . . . En route to a
terrorizing and twisted conclusion, all three women—and the men
with whom they share their lives—are forced to dismantle their
delusions about others and themselves, their choices and their
respective relationships.”—Shelf Awareness
"This month we're gearing up for Paula Hawkins's mystery The
Girl on the Train. Its three narrators keep readers guessing as
they try to suss out who's behind one character's shocking
disappearance. Can you figure out who did it before they
do?"—Martha Stewart Living
“What a thriller!”—People Style Watch
“Hawkins keeps the tension ratcheted high in this thoroughly
engrossing tale of intersecting strangers and intimate betrayals.
Kept me guessing until the very end.”—Lisa Gardner, #1 New
York Times–bestselling author of the Detective D. D. Warren
series
“I simply could not put it down.”—Tess Gerritsen, New York
Times–bestselling author of the Rizzoli and Isles series
“Gripping, enthralling—a top-notch thriller and a compulsive
read.”—S. J. Watson,New York Times–bestselling author
of Before I Go to Sleep
“Be ready to be spellbound, ready to become as obsessed. . .
. The Girl on the Train is the kind of book you’ll want
to press into the hands of everyone you know, just so they
can share your obsession and you can relive it.”—Laura
Kasischke, author of The Raising
“What a group of characters, what a situation, what a book! It’s
Alfred Hitchcock for a new generation and a new era.”—Terry Hayes,
author of I Am Pilgrim
“Artfully crafted and utterly riveting. The Girl on the
Train’s clever structure and expert pacing will keep you perched on
the edge of your seat, but it’s Hawkins’s deft, empathetic
characterization that will leave you pondering this harrowing,
thought-provoking story about the power of memory and the danger of
envy.”—Kimberly McCreight, New York Times–bestselling author
of Reconstructing Amelia
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