The Girl on the Train

The Girl on the Train: A Novel Hardcover – January 13, 2015

Author: Visit Amazon’s Paula Hawkins Page | Language: English | ISBN: 1594633665 | Format: PDF, EPUB

The Girl on the Train: A Novel – January 13, 2015
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• Hardcover: 336 pages


• Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover (January 13, 2015)


• Language: English


• ISBN-10: 1594633665


• ISBN-13: 978-1594633669


• Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.1 x 9.4 inches


• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)


• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  
  • #4 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers & Suspense > Crime
  
  
  • #5 in Books > literature & Fiction > Literary
  
  
  • #5 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers & Suspense > Suspense
  
  

Rachel is a woman who considers herself worthless. She feels that women are only valued for two things: their looks and their role as a mother. She is barren and rather plain looking. Unbeknownst to her landlady she has lost her job but continues to ride the commuter train twice a day. Unfortunately she must pass the home of her ex-husband Tom and his new wife Anna. They’ve recently had a child which is something Rachel was unable to produce when she was married to him. He’s moved his new family into the home that he and Rachel once shared. Tom posted a picture of himself and his newborn on Facebook with the caption that he’s never been happier.

Rachel, in her despondency, has taken to drinking to a point where she has blackouts and forgets that she drunk calls her husband many times a night, even shows up at his home. Because of a signal malfunction she often finds her rail car stopped on the tracks next to her former home. She starts to notice another couple who live a few doors down. She refers to them as the golden couple and manufactures a narrative about their lives as she observes them each day. They gradually become important to her.

When Megan (of the Golden Couple) disappears Rachel finds herself an integral character in the police investigation. She was seen stalking the neighborhood the night of the disappearance. She has wounds on her body that can’t be explained. Megan and Anna look enough alike that the police feel there may be mistaken identity involved.

The book is told in three voices: Rachel, Megan and Anna. The fact that Rachel has a history of drunken blackouts and has a hard time separating fact from fiction makes her overtly suspect, even to herself.

Open this book, start reading and within the first few pages, you’re likely to be hooked by one of the best psychological thrillers of the year. It’s a stunner.

Who hasn’t looked out the window of a car or commuter train and occasionally glimpsed a slice of someone’s life or wondered who lived in a particular house? Rachel, the “girl on the train” is particularly driven by that impulse. She is a woman who has become desperately lonely and cut off from the world after losing Tom, a man she loved deeply and passionately. He is now living with another woman, Anna.

Left reeling, Rachel thinks of herself as “no longer desirable…. as if people can see the damage written all over me.” She now lives mostly for the moments she spends – twice a day- riding the commuter train. Looking into the windows of strangers’ homes , imagining them safe and sound, is oddly comforting for her. And she is particularly obsessed with a couple she names “Jesse and Jason”, seeing them as a her romantic ideal. For her, “they’re a match, they’re a set” and a symbol of all that she lost.

One day, Rachel is shocked to see “Jesse” kissing a stranger and suddenly everything changes, especially when the woman goes missing. Rachel is determined to solve the mystery of what she saw. Her faulty memory is a major challenge but as this novel proceeds, clues start to emerge. But where do they lead? And can Rachel remember what she saw?

I loved the tension and detailed characterizations of each person in this novel. Events unfurl through the perspectives of three women, primarily Rachel – but also Anna (Tom’s new love) and Megan (the real name of the woman Rachel nicknamed “Jesse). Chapters alternate between the first person point of view of each woman.

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