THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN

BY PAULA HAWKINS

A narrative split between three women, each one with their own past which is tightly defining the course of the present and will flow into a dramatic end of the story.

A story mainly explained by one of them, Rachel. Her infertility discovery triggers a domino effect of misfortune changing her into an alcoholic who has lost her husband, home and job. With a sarcastic tone, even often mocking, she lets her imagination fly and with the struggling of her miserable pass of the days and the amnesia she suffers, all mixed together, sets an amazing novel’s plot.

The train is a powerful element since the beginning, as it is the place where Rachel throughout the false “going work-coming home” feels more comfortable quenching her thirst with some premixed gintonics. So she uses it every day between the suburbs where she lives now and London where she pretend to work as used to do.

In the way of the daily journey, two settings. The first of them, her old house where her ex-husband keeps living with his current wife and their newborn girl. The second one, Megan and Scott house, ‘Jess and Jason’, she calls them, the perfect couple who she admires.

Rachel, Megan and Anna; the ex-wife, the lover and the wife, three victims of a alpha male who has made them into a weak-willed women. He is called Tom, a charming, liar, handsome and selfish man.

The life of Megan, Rachel, Anna, Tom and Scott will merge in the most unexpected way. Nobody will be as they seem to be. A Molotov cocktail of love, hate, lies, doubts, sex, alcohol, shame, passion and courage. A deadly end for some and a relievable for others. Everyone gets their just deserts? Judge it for yourself…