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The Girl on the Train

By: Paula Hawkins
Narrated by: India Fisher, Louise Brealey, Clare Corbett
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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

 Crime Thrillers Detective Fiction Mystery Psychological Thriller Thriller & Suspense Women's Fiction Crime Suspense Exciting Scary Feel-Good

Critic reviews

Really great suspense novel. Kept me up most of the night. The alcoholic narrator is dead perfect.
The thriller scene will have to up its game if it's to match Hawkins this year
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
achieves a sinister poetry . . . Hawkins keeps the nastiest twist for last
Hawkins' masterful deployment of unwittingly unreliable narration to evoke the aftershocks of abuse and trauma is a powerful way of exploring women's marginalization
Springs new surprises on us . . .Pulses will be quickened
The Girl on the Train has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller since Gone Girl
Halfway through and I can't stop reading it. My kinda thriller!
it's BLIDDY FABLISS, isn't it! A long long time since a book gripped me like this
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 . . .
All stars
Most relevant
Beautifully observed and written. Thrilling in it's twists and turn and characterisation. A must have book by a new talent.

Superb!

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Excellent plot and delivery, a true thriller, with lots of very neurotic, self destructive character that some how are real in a very familiar way.
Sexual politics is war in the trenches of suburbia, and everyone is fighting a private little war that no one can win, till it escalate out of control and the knives come out. We will all recognize some one in our past a slight deja vu of youth, and indiscretion well buried in the past. Saints will not understand this book and should not read it.
All three reader were excellent and created a small reality that added to the story.

Sexual politics is war in the trenches of suburbia

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Good, but over rated. I was expecting a classic, but worked out the murderer half way through.

Good, but over rated.

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Would you listen to The Girl on the Train again? Why?

Yes, I thought it was excellent.

What does the narrators bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

The narrators bring the book to life.

Any additional comments?

I thought this was a superb book, really engrossing thriller with genuine suspense. The characters are that great mixture of quirky and not very pleasant. It is very well read and anyone who likes good thrillers will like this book.

Great Thriller...keeps you guessing until the end.

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Ending of the book becomes rather cliche and not much left for the imagination.
Not the sensational hit I was hoping for.

Cliche ending

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