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The girl on the train.
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16 Mar 2018 11:52 am
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Paula Hawkins debut psychological thriller ‘The girl on the train’ has had the literary world buzzing for some time, receiving rave reviews and being likened to the success of Gillian Flynn’s Gone girl. They are both highly readable and deal with the complex dynamics of marriage, shifting narratives and plot twists.
The girl on the train in question is Rachel, who is travelling each day into London in the hopes her flat mate won’t realise she has lost her job due to her excessive drinking habits, which also played a part in the downfall of her marriage.
Rachel’s commute travels past the house she used to live in with her ex-husband Tom before her drinking spiraled out of control; Tom now lives here with Anna, the mistress he left Rachel for and their young child. A few doors down live Megan and Scott, who are the focus of the main mystery to the plotline when Megan goes missing one night after an argument.
The narrative flows between Rachel, Anna and Megan as the mystery deepens and each of their lives unravel further and, as with most mysteries, it gets complicated before the truth is revealed, but if’s Rachel’s world that is highlighted as the biggest voice. Having become the epitome of the drunk ex, she is harassing her ex husband and Anna and, as her behavior spirals, she holds little memory of the trouble she is causing. Her life also soon becomes enmeshed in the mystery of Megan’s disappearance when Rachel comes forward as a witness after she sees her kissing an unknown man on her daily commute from the window of the speeding train.
Alternating points of narrative can at times be difficult to follow, but for a debut author Hawkins achieves this smoothly flowing between the train wreck of Rachel to the young mother Anna and Megan who is battling her own demons with her past. It is a fast paced engrossing read, with mystery, infidelity, public drunkenness and numerous unreliable characters.
"Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis."
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