Paula Hawkins

Author

Paula Hawkins is a British author who became a global literary phenomenon with The Girl on the Train, one of the bestselling novels of the decade. Born in Harare, Zimbabwe, in 1972, she moved to London in 1989 and studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Oxford University before working as a financial journalist for fifteen years,... writing for publications including The Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Cosmopolitan. The Girl on the Train, published in 2015, sold over twenty million copies worldwide and was adapted into a major Hollywood film. The psychological thriller, told through the unreliable narrations of three women, tapped into the zeitgeist of domestic noir and became one of the fastest-selling adult novels in history. Hawkins' subsequent novels — Into the Water, A Slow Fire Burning, and Blind Spot — have all been bestsellers, each exploring the dark currents that run beneath the surface of ordinary life. Before her thriller career, Hawkins wrote four romantic comedy novels under the name Amy Silver. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers tightly constructed psychological suspense that explores obsession, guilt, and the dangerous gaps between what we see and what is true. Read more Show less