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Barbara is an award-winning bookseller who has a special interest in fiction, especially Australian fiction and children’s books for all ages.
Paula Hawkins was born in Zimbabwe and worked as a journalist in London for 15 years before writing her debut novel The Girl on the Train. It has just been published but already has received rave reviews around the world and people who have read it are enthusiastically recommending it to their friends. Rachel is divorced, an alcoholic and frequently travels to London by train. The train always stops near the house she lived in with her ex-husband who now lives in the same house with his new wife. Through the train window she often sees an interesting couple who live a few doors down from her original home. Rachel is not in a good space at the time after losing her job and drinking excessively so she fantasises about the couple giving them names and occupations. One day she sees the wife in a most compromising situation with a man who isn’t her husband. She then notices the wife has disappeared and is certain something terrible has happened to her. The novel is extremely fast paced which is helped by three narrators telling their side of the story, Rachel, her husband’s new wife Anna, and Megan who is the women in the house nearby, all telling their version of events. The Girl on the Train catapults to a thrilling climax and has been likened to Gone Girl which I think is a most apt comparison.
