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    The Girl on the Train is a psychological thriller novel told from the perspective of Rachel Watson, an alcoholic who takes the train into the city every day and passes by her old house. As she watches the people in a house a few doors down, she creates imaginary lives for a couple she calls "Megan and Scott". One day, she sees something shocking involving Megan and another man. The next day, Megan is reported missing. Rachel becomes obsessed with trying to solve the mystery of what happened to Megan. The novel explores issues of unreliable narration, infidelity and the blurring of memories with alcoholism.

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    The Girl on the Train is a psychological thriller novel told from the perspective of Rachel Watson, an alcoholic who takes the train into the city every day and passes by her old house. As she watches the people in a house a few doors down, she creates imaginary lives for a couple she calls "Megan and Scott". One day, she sees something shocking involving Megan and another man. The next day, Megan is reported missing. Rachel becomes obsessed with trying to solve the mystery of what happened to Megan. The novel explores issues of unreliable narration, infidelity and the blurring of memories with alcoholism.

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    The Girl on the Train is a psychological thriller novel told from the perspective of Rachel Watson, an alcoholic who takes the train into the city every day and passes by her old house. As she watches the people in a house a few doors down, she creates imaginary lives for a couple she calls "Megan and Scott". One day, she sees something shocking involving Megan and another man. The next day, Megan is reported missing. Rachel becomes obsessed with trying to solve the mystery of what happened to Megan. The novel explores issues of unreliable narration, infidelity and the blurring of memories with alcoholism.

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    The Girl on the Train is a psychological thriller novel told from the perspective of Rachel Watson, an alcoholic who takes the train into the city every day and passes by her old house. As she watches the people in a house a few doors down, she creates imaginary lives for a couple she calls "Megan and Scott". One day, she sees something shocking involving Megan and another man. The next day, Megan is reported missing. Rachel becomes obsessed with trying to solve the mystery of what happened to Megan. The novel explores issues of unreliable narration, infidelity and the blurring of memories with alcoholism.

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    The Girl on the Train

    First edition (US)

    with quote from Tess Gerritsen

    Author Paula Hawkins

     Clare Corbett
    Audio read by
     Louise Brealey

     India Fisher

    Country United Kingdom

    Language English

    Published 13 January 2015 (Riverhead Books, US)

    15 January 2015 (Doubleday, UK)

    Media type Print (hardback)

    Pages 395 (US)


    320 (UK)
    The Girl on the Train (2015) is a psychological thriller novel by British
    author Paula Hawkins. The novel debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times and
    remained in the top position for 13 consecutive weeks, . In January 2016 it became
    the No.1 best-seller again for two weeks. Many reviews referred to the book as "the
    next Gone Girl”.
    By early March 2015, the novel had sold over 1 million copies.
    The audiobook edition, narrated by Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey and India Fisher won the
    2016 Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year.

    plot

    The Girl on the Train is the story of Rachel Watson's life post-divorce. Every day,
    she takes the train in to work in New York, and every day the train passes by her
    old house. As she attempts to not focus on her pain, she starts watching a couple
    who live a few houses down -- Megan and Scott Hipwell. She creates a wonderful
    dream life for them in her head, about how they are a perfect happy family. And
    then one day, as the train passes, she sees something shocking, filling her with
    rage. The next day, she wakes up with a horrible hangover and no memory of the
    night before. She has only a feeling: something bad happened. Then come the TV
    reports: Megan Hipwell is missing. Rachel becomes invested in the case and trying
    to find out what happened to Megan.

    Published 13 January 2015 (Riverhead Books, US)

    15 January 2015 (Doubleday, UK)

    The film rights for the novel were acquired in March 2014 by DreamWorks Pictures and
    Marc Platt Productions
    The film was released on 7 October 2016.[33] It remains mostly faithful to events in the
    book;
    cast

     Emily Blunt as Rachel Watson, a lonely alcoholic and Tom's ex-wife


     Rebecca Ferguson as Anna Boyd, a real estate agent and Tom's current wife
     Haley Bennett as Megan Hipwell, Scott's wife

    Rachel Watson
    The protagonist of the story, she is the title's girl on the train. She goes every day on the same morning
    and evening trains, observing the same suburban houses beside the tracks. However, there is one house
    that she watches every day, naming the people in it, Jess and Jason. She loves this house because it
    reminds her of her past, perfect life, before her divorce from Tom. However, after witnessing a tryst
    going on between "Jess" and another man, she gets involved in a crime scene related to this house's
    inhabitants.
    Megan Hipwell
    Rachel's "Jess," she feels conflicted in her marriage, often seeking comfort in her husband Scott but also
    finding him overprotective. She has affairs with her therapist and, we later find, with Tom. On a Saturday
    night in July, she goes missing and days later she is found dead. Much of Megan's trauma comes from the
    death of her brother Ben and the later death of her child, Libby, who she had while living with a
    boyfriend named Craig.
    Anna Watson
    Anna is Tom's new wife. She hates Rachel and gets annoyed when Tom
    talks to or about her. Anna is very happy with her life with Tom and their
    baby girl. She especially liked being the "other woman" when Tom and
    Rachel were still married. However, after finding out that Tom lied to her
    just as much as to Rachel, she helps Rachel kill Tom, prioritizing her child
    and herself over him.

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