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The Girl on the Train

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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

Critics Review

Really great suspense novel. Kept me up most of the night. The alcoholic narrator is dead perfect.
STEPHEN KING
The thriller scene will have to up its game if it's to match Hawkins this year
Observer
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
Irish Times
achieves a sinister poetry . . . Hawkins keeps the nastiest twist for last
Financial Times
Hawkins' masterful deployment of unwittingly unreliable narration to evoke the aftershocks of abuse and trauma is a powerful way of exploring women's marginalization
Huffington Post
Springs new surprises on us . . .Pulses will be quickened
The Good Book Guide
The Girl on the Train has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller since Gone Girl
New York Times
Halfway through and I can't stop reading it. My kinda thriller!
Tweet from Armistead Maupin
it's BLIDDY FABLISS, isn't it! A long long time since a book gripped me like this
Tweet from Marian Keyes
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 . . .
Ryan Tubridy
Author Paula Hawkins
Narrator India Fisher, Louise Brealey, Clare Corbett
Duration 10 hours and 57 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781473510890
Format Audiobook
Publisher Transworld
Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Psychological thriller, Thriller / suspense fiction
Collections Hear Her Voice
Availability AU, GB, IE

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