The Girl on the Train: A Novel By Paula Hawkins Narrated By
Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey, India Fisher
Available in house in hardcover
And on Library2Go in both e-book and audiobook format- This
review is based on the audiobook
Synopsis from Goodreads:
A debut
psychological thriller about a woman who becomes emotionally entangled in a
murder investigation because of something she witnesses on her daily commute.
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and every night. Every day she rattles over the same track junctions, flashes past the same stretch of cozy suburban homes. And every day she stops at the same signal and she sees the same couple, breakfasting on their roof deck, living the perfect life that Rachel craves for herself—a lifestyle she recently lost. She looks forward to observing this household every morning, even makes up names and narratives for its residents. Then one day Rachel sees someone new in their garden, and soon after, the woman who lived there disappears.
Unable to keep this information to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and in the process is drawn into the lives of the couple she thought of as Jason and Jess but whose names—she has learned from the news—are really Megan and Scott Hipwell.
But the police accuse Rachel of being unreliable, and it’s true that her memories can’t always be trusted. Plus there are the stories that her ex-husband’s new wife has been spreading about her. By the time Megan’s body is found, Rachel is in over her head, intricately entangled in the details of the investigation, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she put others in danger? Has she done more harm than good?
A compulsively readable, emotionally immersive, Hitchcockian thriller that draws comparisons to Gone Girl, The Silent Wife, or Before I Go to Sleep, this is an electrifying debut embraced by readers across markets and categories.
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and every night. Every day she rattles over the same track junctions, flashes past the same stretch of cozy suburban homes. And every day she stops at the same signal and she sees the same couple, breakfasting on their roof deck, living the perfect life that Rachel craves for herself—a lifestyle she recently lost. She looks forward to observing this household every morning, even makes up names and narratives for its residents. Then one day Rachel sees someone new in their garden, and soon after, the woman who lived there disappears.
Unable to keep this information to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and in the process is drawn into the lives of the couple she thought of as Jason and Jess but whose names—she has learned from the news—are really Megan and Scott Hipwell.
But the police accuse Rachel of being unreliable, and it’s true that her memories can’t always be trusted. Plus there are the stories that her ex-husband’s new wife has been spreading about her. By the time Megan’s body is found, Rachel is in over her head, intricately entangled in the details of the investigation, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she put others in danger? Has she done more harm than good?
A compulsively readable, emotionally immersive, Hitchcockian thriller that draws comparisons to Gone Girl, The Silent Wife, or Before I Go to Sleep, this is an electrifying debut embraced by readers across markets and categories.
My Review:
This book has had so much hype that I was honestly a little
worried that it wasn't going to live up to it but holy cow did it ever.
This was a twisty turny, keep you guessing to the end kind
of book, with completely unreliable narrator's all three of these women were
unreliable narrator's which is kind of fascinating because you never knew who
was telling the truth or the truth as they saw it or are just lying completely.
Every time I thought I had it figured out it would turn a different way, I
thought I had it figured out many times and I never did.
Told by 3 women:
Rachel- alcoholic,
scorned woman, she is the girl on the train and honestly quite a mess.
Anna- Rachel’s
ex-husbands new wife and mother of his child, self-centered and paranoid of
Rachel.
Megan- missing, confused, self-centered and craves attention.
The three audiobook narrators Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey
and India Fisher all did such a fantastic job they truly brought these women to
life and endowed each with such emotion. These were all new to me narrators and
I will definitely be looking for other books any of these women have narrated!
This book was amazing, it was great from beginning till end
never bogged down and kept me guessing all the way through. I don’t want to
give any more away because this is one of those books where the wrong word
could be a spoiler, suffice it to say Just Read This Book! Now!
