The Girl on the Train

Good quality and as I thought .. nice book

The quality is bad

Papers came out of the book after few days. Otherwise it’s fine

Returned the item due to damaged outer cover. Packing should be improved.

The paperback edition of The Girl on the Train is of decent quality. The cover design is eye-catching, and the print quality is clear and easy to read. The pages feel durable, though slightly thin, but they hold up well even after multiple reads. The size is comfortable for carrying around, making it a perfect on-the-go book.As for the story, it’s a gripping psychological thriller that keeps you hooked from start to finish, with plenty of twists and turns. If you enjoy suspenseful novels, this one is a great addition to your collection!

If it's a book by Paula Hawkins then it's great. It was the first book I've read by her and I fell in love with her writings so I got all her books. such a thrilling book. I absolutely thought it was a genius idea to write the character's point of view. Each time I have a reading session I immediately travel inside this little world.

Used but still in good condition.

The Girl On The Train follows three women and each one tells her own story.Rachel travels by train twice a day to London pretending to go to work. She fears being evicted from her flat if the landlady finds out she has lost her job. She lost her job, because of her drinking. When she drinks, she blacks out. In fact, she has lost everything, her husband, her job and her home.The train flashes past Bleinheim Road, where Rachel used to live with her ex-husband Tom. A few doors down lives a couple that Rachel watches daily, when the train stops at the signal. To Rachel, they are the ideal couple. Every morning they have breakfast on the terrace. Rachel can't take her eyes off them. Their lives seem perfect. Her life is not. She has even given them names, Jess and Jason.Megan Hipwell ran an art gallery before it folded. Her brother, Ben, died in a motorbike accident. She tried to work as a nanny for the couple who live a few doors down the street, but it didn't work out. She didn't like the woman and she quit. Megan is married to Scott, an IT consultant, who seems to love her very much. Is their marriage the perfect marriage as Rachel seems to think?Anna is married to Tom, who is Rachel's ex-husband, and they have a baby daughter. They live in the home where Rachel once lived with Tom. Anna's life with Tom would be perfect if not for Rachel barging into their lives. Rachel calls Tom regularly and sometimes hangs around their home, which is creepy. Rachel is always under the influence of alcohol. Anna is afraid of her and wants to move, but Tom says he can't afford it.One day a crime is committed and everyone is a suspect. While on the train, Rachel sees something shocking and she decides to go to the Police. They hear her out, but because of her drinking she is not a reliable witness. Rachel is not giving up. She is doing her own detective work.Any one of the above women and their husbands could be the one who committed the crime. They each have a good reason to. The author takes you on a journey with its twists and turns that keeps the reader on the edge of his/her seat. The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins is her first thriller. The writing is superb and the pacing is right on. I can hardly wait for the author's next thriller.I enjoyed this novel and I can highly recommend it.

It seems to me that reviewers either loved Paula Hawkins’s novel or hated it...well I liked it. It was an invigorating way to write a novel while limiting the characters to a ‘Cormac McCarthy’ friendly five. And on top of that, Paula has three narrators telling her story with two being in the same time frame and the third laging months behind (until the end). Absolutely brilliant. The way the story was written caused this reviewer to want to read more progressively. While I love short chapter books, this is the first one that I can remember that sectioned the short chapters into morning, evening and sometimes afternoons. It doesn’t get any better than that. Although Paula was cautiously descriptive about her five main characters, I had a handle on how I visualized each character. I did read that some readers thought that this novel echoed Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, I would agree but I would merge it with Strangers On A Train (1951). Nonetheless, there are some hitchcockian (did I just make a new word?) traits in Paula’s novel. Of course the novel isn’t all ‘peaches and cream’, I did notice some disjointed involvement whenever the red-haired man (near the end we learn that his name is Andy) appeared. I couldn’t figure out why he was in Paula’s novel, it was almost like he was a walk-on from another novel. And it is never defined (well enough for me) why Rachel needed to ride that train every day with no purpose, other than to fool her landlady, Cathy. Why would Cathy care that she was unemployed as long as Rachel was paying the rent? And what did that ‘little pile of clothes by the edge of the track’ have to do with the novel? These are minor complaints, but very few novels escape my fault-finding.Rachel Watson rides the 8:04 train each morning from Ashbury to London even though she doesn’t have her public relations job anymore. One day she turned up at work “blind drunk after a three-hour lunch with a client.” Rachel insulted the client and lost his business. Rachel was sacked. She also doesn’t have her husband Tom anymore. Since she couldn’t get pregnant, she turned to gin and tonics and forced her husband, Tom into an affair with Anna Boyd. Rachel was divorced. She nows lives in a rented room in Cathy’s house. And drinking heavily. To make matters worse, the train stops momentarily most mornings by a faulty red signal and from her train seat she can see her old house. Tom still lives there with his new wife, Anna and their first baby. But Rachel’s focal point is the house on the same street nearest to the tracks. There she daily observes a seemingly happy couple on their patio or having coffee in their garden. Rachel names them Jason and Jess although she will later learn that they are Scott and Megan. In Rachel’s mind...are they the ideal couple that Tom and her could have been? Is Rachel jealous of this unknown couple's life? She continues to find happiness observing them briefly each morning from her train seat. Then the unthinkable happens one morning. Rachel sees a tall dark stranger kissing Jess (Megan) on Jason (Scott) and Jess’s patio. Rachel thinks to herself, “Why would she do that? Jason loves her, I can see it, they’re happy. I can’t believe she would do that to him, he doesn’t deserve that. I feel a real sense of disappointment, I feel as though I have been cheated on.”The Megan narrated chapters are always lagging behind Rachel and Anna’s chapters chronologically. The reader learns that Megan has also lost her job and is somewhat depressed. Scott suggests that she should get some therapy. Megan agrees and makes an appointment to see Dr. Kamal Abdic. Don’t think that I’m giving the story away because I’ve only covered about the first thirty pages. Paula Hawkins’s hitchcockian mystery is ready to explode as Rachel comes home to her room at Cathy’s on a Saturday night. Rachel is beat up, vomiting, hungover and unable to remember what happened that night. She knows that she was in her old neighborhood because her ex-husband Tom has left messages on her phone. Rachel sees the news on the television and learns that Megan has been reported missing. After some time, Rachel goes to the police and tells them that she saw Megan kissing a stranger on the patio. They don’t consider her a reliable witness. The police show her a picture of Dr. Abdic and Rachel I.D’s him as the mystery kisser of Megan. Later Rachel meets Scott at his house and tells him that Dr. Abdic was having an affair with Megan. For some reason she lies and tells Scott that she knew Megan. Has Megan been murdered? Did the doctor do it? Did her husband do it, or whomever? Maybe she is alive. When will Rachel remember what happened on that Saturday night? This is the point where the novel becomes a page turner and where I stop recapping. I only touched on the beginning, all the juicy parts are still ahead. This was an exciting book with some minor flaws, but I highly recommend this maiden thriller by journalist Paula Hawkins.