The Girl on the Train

Really great suspense novel. Kept me up most of the night. The alcoholic narrator is dead perfect. * STEPHEN KING *My vote for unreliable narrator of the year * The Times *The thriller scene will have to up its game if it’s to match Hawkins this year * Observer *Hawkins’s taut story roars along at the pace of, well, a high-speed train … a smart, searing thriller’ * Good Housekeeping (US) *The Girl On The Train was so thrilling and tense and wildly unpredictable, it sucked up my entire afternoon. I simply could not put it down. Not to be missed! * Tess Gerritsen *Gripping, enthralling - a top-notch thriller and a compulsive read * S J Watson *What a group of characters, what a situation, what a book! It’s Alfred Hitchcock for a new generation and a new era * Terry Hayes, bestselling author of I Am Pilgrim *Clever and compelling! Hawkins keeps the tension ratcheted high in this thoroughly engrossing tale of intersecting strangers and intimate betrayals. Kept me guessing until the very end! * Lisa Gardner *A thriller that grabs you from the first page and takes you on a high speed ride full of twists and turns. Gazing out of the train window will never be the same again! * Colette McBeth, author of Precious Thing and The Life I Left Behind *an impressive thriller debut * Guardian *

Paula Hawkins worked as a journalist for fifteen years before turning her hand to fiction. Born and brought up in Zimbabwe, Paula moved to London in 1989 and has lived there ever since. Her first thriller, The Girl on the Train, has been a global phenomenon, selling 23 million copies worldwide. Published in over forty languages, it has been a No.1 bestseller around the world and was a No.1 box office hit film starring Emily Blunt. Into the Water, her second stand-alone thriller, has also been a global No.1 bestseller, spending twenty weeks in the Sunday Times hardback fiction Top 10 bestseller list, and six weeks at No.1.