The Girl on the Train

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

PAULA HAWKINS worked as a journalist for fifteen years before writing her first book. Paula was born and brought up in Zimbabwe. She moved to London in 1989 and has lived there ever since. Her first thriller, The Girl on the Train, has sold 23 million copies worldwide. Published in over fifty languages, it has been a Number 1 bestseller around the world and was a box office hit film starring Emily Blunt.

Paula’s second thriller, Into the Water, and her latest book, A Slow Fire Burning, were also instant Number 1 bestsellers.