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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....

©2015 Paula Hawkins (P)2015 Penguin Audio Crime Thrillers Detective Fiction Genre Fiction Mystery Psychological Thriller Thriller & Suspense Urban Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Transportation City Suspense Exciting Scary Feel-Good

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Editor reviews

This is the captivating psychological thriller audiobook The Girl on the Train, written by Paula Hawkins and narrated by Clare Corbett, India Fisher and Louise Brealey. Listeners are drawn into the seemingly ordinary world of Rachel. Every morning, Rachel observes from her train window the daily rituals of those in the houses next to the railway tracks. Rachel longs to join these people. But all is not as it seems. Rachel glimpses something shocking from her window one morning. In this intense story, Audible listeners are hooked - does fate lead Rachel to see this? Or have the people in the houses been watching Rachel?

Critic reviews

"You don't know her. But she knows you. Rear Window meets Gone Girl, in this exceptional and startling psychological thriller. Gripping, enthralling - a top-notch thriller and a compulsive [listen]. " (S J Watson, best-selling author of Before I Go to Sleep)
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What did you like most about The Girl on the Train?

The female characters are utterly engaging; you care about so very much. The male characters with one exception are brutes but three dimensional brutes, ordinary men on the surface, but in a domestic situation, tyrants.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Rachel, lost, foolish yet lovable and human. You would be pleased to have her as a friend.

What about the narrators’s performance did you like?

The three female protagonists are voiced by three different women, all very different in tone reflecting the various aspects of their individual characters.

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

This is an emotional roller coaster; full of suspense, full of pain. It made me wince rather than cry.

Any additional comments?

By far and away the best thriller I have listened to for years.

Runs Like An Express

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Every day Rachel, an alcoholic gets the train into London and every day she looks out at the houses imagining the lives of one particular couple, Scott and Megan. She pictures their perfect lives together but then one day she sees Megan with another man and decides to confront her. Walking up the next day, her pillow is covered in blood from a cut on her head, she doesn't remember anything and Megan is missing…

I struggled a lot with this one. I didn't find any of the characters particularly interesting because they are all terrible people. I hung on till the end just so see if I was right about what happened to Megan (I was fyi). I listened to the audiobook which, for me, was not great. It was narrated by three different people and one in particular was like listening to Siri read the book.

The Girl on the Train

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This started off in a normal way. Girl on a train, watching the world go by. The train always halts at the same signal, outside the same house and she finds herself watching the owners. She feels like she knows them and invents a life for them; then the wife goes missing and she funds herself drawn into their lives. Ironically, she knows the area and the street, as it is where she used to live with her ex-husband!
Various twists and turns and complications in the plot leave you hooked.
Told in the words of the three key women, Rachel, Anna (her ex's new wife) and Megan, the missing woman, it is beautifully narrated.
Recommended! Enjoy!

An intriguing idea and an interesting plot.

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The three narrators did a good job with the story which was bland. Different perspectives on each chapter kept it interesting.

Good Narrators

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The narration was good, enjoyable to listen to with all the different characters and I easily recognised each voice. Not keen on the story though, I felt like if you removed the first half of the book you wouldn't really have missed anything. There were quite a few pointless sections but then maybe that was to throw you off. Either way I didn't enjoy the story and wasn't too interested in the mystery being solved, I ended up just hoping for it to be over. :-/

Good narration

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What are you waiting for? This book is absolutely fantastic !! I was cautious, but that caution was immediately cast aside. I wish all books were this good

A twist & turn at every page. Read now !!

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Really enjoyed this, had read the paper book and seen the film but a really good audio recording and still as gripping 3rd time round!

Gripping

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Very well crafted; a genuine page turner. Gripping to the end. Would recommend and will read more by this author.

Enthralling and surprising

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Compelling listen, well-narrated.

A jilted and obsessed alcoholic ex-wife weaves herself into the view from her window on the train, and then has to deal with the consequences.

Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Couldn't switch off...

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I really enjoyed this book, From the plot to the characters, it had the must keep listening feel to it. Five stars well earned.

Brilliant read.

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