The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins
Paula Hawkins
Rachel is desperate to find happiness and a life more thrilling than
her own. As a lonely commuter, she
imagines the story of a perfect life between a couple she has only seen through
the train window, but soon finds that everything is not what it seems.
Rachel is a miserable, divorced alcoholic who still desperately loves
her ex-husband, Tom. She rides the same
train into London day after day to her dead-end job, which she ends up losing
due to her drunken state at work. Afraid
to let her roommate know that she has lost her job, Rachel continues to ride the
train everyday to appear as if she is still working. While on her daily trip, Rachel always sees a
couple who she calls “Jess and Jason”.
The pair seem to have a perfect life, in a perfect house in Rachel’s old
neighborhood. She imagines that their
life must be lovely, but one day on her train ride she witnesses an act of
infidelity, and then hears the news that Jess (whose real name is Megan) has
disappeared. The investigation into Megan’s disappearance centers around her
husband, Scott. Rachel feels compelled
to go to the police to share her information regarding the infidelity and
becomes enmeshed into not only the police investigation, but the lives of Megan,
Scott, and even Rachel’s ex-husband. A
further complication is that Rachel was terribly drunk on the night Megan
vanished and while she can vaguely remember walking by her home, she cannot
remember what she saw.
Hawkins slowly reveals the facts of the story and readers will be quite
shocked by the outcome and how love and obsession can lead to violence.
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