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The Girl on the Train
- Narrated by: Louise Brealey, India Fisher, Clare Corbett
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thriller & Suspense
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Publisher's Summary
Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life - as she sees it - is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy.
And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she's only watched from afar. Now they'll see - she's much more than just the girl on the train....
Critic Reviews
"You don't know her. But she knows you. Rear Window meets Gone Girl, in this exceptional and startling psychological thriller. Gripping, enthralling - a top-notch thriller and a compulsive [listen]. " (S J Watson, best-selling author of Before I Go to Sleep)
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- Kindle Customer
- 28-01-19
Super!
Gripping storyline right from the start. Brilliant narration. A difficult to put down book! Loved it.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-09-19
Addictive
Very interesting, keeps you hooked on. Really admired the voice over of Rachel and Megan!!
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- Sridhar
- 30-08-19
A gripping story
This is a good story. the twists in the story line the unexpected killer overall a good one.
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- Annamalai Rm
- 19-07-19
A good enough novel
A psychological drama which takes a turn at Chap 7 to the best and the twist at the end and the details from three point of view makes it damn interesting
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- Isha Kaul
- 29-06-19
A fast paced nail biting story
Loved the book! Could not wait to finish. well written! look forward to more books!
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- santoshkb
- 04-01-21
rantings of a drunk woman
boring, best to be equally drunk if u expect a thriller 😁😁😁 too much hype around this book
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- Khushy
- 19-11-20
interesting
interesting enough to keep you hooked. narration was good . very well conceptualized. nice read
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- Manish
- 15-11-20
Listening to a thriller movie
Climax is like many Hollywood thrillers and a bit let down no wonder many remakes of this novel are in making.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-11-20
What a thriller!
Absolutely loved it and the suspense is maintained till the end. A must read for everyone.
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- sanjay shewani
- 21-10-20
nice read
overall a nice story different from what you expect when you read and when you listen
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- Claudia
- 14-04-15
Fantastic
A really great story, very intriguing and original, read by wonderful voice actors who fit the story perfectly - highly recommended.
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- Brendan
- 25-04-15
Not bad at all.
I was pleasantly surprised by this book. The author had me guessing who the killer actually was till almost the end. This is one of those books that would be hard to put down. Very entertaining.
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- Gabrielle Karsai
- 05-02-15
Wow!
What did you love best about The Girl on the Train?
It really was a thrilling ride!
What did you like best about this story?
The three viewpoints, all in first person.
Which character – as performed by the narrators – was your favorite?
All the characters were flawed - in a pretty major way.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
I wanted to slap Rachelle!
Any additional comments?
This was an excellent reading of a great thriller. I highly recommend reading it before it's turned into a movie.
4 people found this helpful
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- alvaro de torres
- 14-04-15
Great book
Entertaining, well written, page turner, never dull, recommended for the lovers of mystery, suspense, crime, and plots that are hiding below the surface of apparently normal lifes
3 people found this helpful
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- Francine Taylor
- 14-03-15
Excellent story
This novel was full of suspense . It was well read and easy to listen to ,with a lot of twists. A thou rally enjoyable read .
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- Schneider
- 09-02-15
Not so much like Gone Girl but good
I must admit, I got this book because it was said it’s a bit like Gone Girl. Even if I can imagine what readers meant, I find the two stories are not so much alike. I enjoyed the book nonetheless, especially because the the main narrator does such a great job. With the second and third narrator I had some problems but that was maybe because I couldn’t get a good grip on the characters they were reading.
However, the book is well worth the credit and listening time. If you like your stories wicked, you should give it a try :)
Have fun!
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- Moa
- 08-09-15
It grew on me
Great story which kept me guessing all the way trough, could be somewhat slow sometimes though. I loved the voices of Rachel and Megan but hated the voice of Anna, it was almost unbearable to listen to. Overall I ended up loving the book!
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- WillowWiz
- 22-08-15
Brilliant
Loved it! Beautifully told and narrated story, compelling listening, with lots of unexpected twists and turns.
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- Cristina I.
- 15-08-15
Great summer read and not only
I bought it because of the buzz around it. It worth the time and the money. Loved how the story evolved only with the help of the characters and their feelings. I liked the unexpected twists of situations. It kept me wanting more.
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- Niki Wano
- 03-03-15
If you liked Gone Girl you'll probably like this
Loved it, didn't want it to end. An engaging story, very well narrated. Kept me guessing!
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- Miss N. Bleakley-wadlow
- 05-02-17
Hated it
Sorry but this was awful. So boring, banal inane musings of three very unlikeable women, too long, far too much detail of unimportant rubbish. I couldn't have cared less who killed ? I would happily have killed all of them.,,
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-09-17
Was I listening to the right book?
What would have made The Girl on the Train better?
So surprised by this as heard from many people it was a brilliant read. Perhaps I should have read it instead of listening to it. Couldn't finish it...
Would you ever listen to anything by Paula Hawkins again?
No
How did the narrator detract from the book?
Didn't enjoy the narration apologies, too whiney and didn't enjoy the mix of accents
What character would you cut from The Girl on the Train?
The main one, too much repetition with her character
6 people found this helpful
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- Amazon Customer
- 24-10-16
Disappointing
Started off really interesting. Couldn't stop listening. Got bored midway through and was sick of the constant referrals to the train.
Thought the ending was poor. Really disappointed:-(
24 people found this helpful
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- Connie Evans
- 25-10-16
A boring & predictable waste of my time.
I have never given a book such a bad review before but I honestly do not understand how this book is so popular. The story was painfully slow, the characters were pathetic and I was so glad when it was over. I'm surprised I made it to the end but I think I was holding out hope it was going to get better at some point. Really disappointed.
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- Andy
- 26-01-15
I had doubts, I never should have. Brilliant
Where does The Girl on the Train rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Top 3
Who was your favorite character and why?
Rachel. The primary character, and her complex personality drove me crazy at times but my support for her throughout never wavered. Accurately narrated. The life of an alcoholic can often be misrepresented, but has I learned through my profession in health care, this depiction never strayed from the reality. Don't let this guide you alone, the story of three women and three men holds you all the way through to its climatic conclusion.
Which character – as performed by the narrators – was your favourite?
Megan. Again, superbly narrated as the story introduced us to her topsy turvy world.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No. I never do, you need a break to build up the anticipation for the next instalment.
Any additional comments?
Only one criticism. The three narrators had separate characters, which of course enabled you to build up pictures of the characters. However, one character (Kamal), was narrated by two. Both narrators used different voices for him, and for several chapters I thought they were different characters, one the real Kamal, the other someone pretending to be him. Obviously now I realised I was wrong, two of the women characters encountered him, and each narrated for Kamal's character too, hence the confusion. In other words, don't draw anything in to it, like this dim wit here :)
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- Ann D
- 22-01-15
Surprisingly dull!
Would you try another book written by Paula Hawkins or narrated by the narrators?
The narrators were great, so of course. Regarding the author, the quality of the writing was good, so yes, if the synopsis appealed to me.
What was most disappointing about Paula Hawkins’s story?
I listened to well over half of it, then gave-up as it wasn't getting any better. I found none of the characters appealing. The story dragged on and remained dull throughout. No doubt there will be an interesting twist at some point, but I just can't care enough to continue.
Any additional comments?
I looked forward to listening to this as the premise promised a really interesting story. This novel has been compared to Gone Girl - one if my favourite books. It doesn't come close in my opinion.
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- LondonLass
- 06-04-15
What a waste of time.
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
A decent plot and some proper direction.
What could Paula Hawkins have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Perhaps I would have enjoyed it more had there been at least one character who was not consistently and gob-smackingly stupid, worthless and self-obsessed. Even the tragic one for whom I think we were supposed to have felt sympathy was so suicidally brainless I wondered how she managed to make it to the age she did.
What aspect of the narrators’s performance might you have changed?
There were three narrators and the direction was a complete disaster.
Two of the narrators had such similar voices it was occasionally difficult to differentiate them — to be fair, not that the writer’s characterisation helped — but unforgivably when two different women see the same psychiatrist, one of them speaks his words with some sort of an unidentifiable foreign accent, and the other one gives him the voice of an Oxford graduate. I cannot blame the actresses for that, they got their scripts and read them as they saw fit. Was the director asleep?
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Girl on the Train?
The scenes between Chapter One and The End
Any additional comments?
The themes were adult but I was put in mind of all those schoolgirl stories in which young Felicity notices something nefarious going on in her boarding school and after an extravagant catalogue of tribulations during which no-one believes her and her fellow pupils send her to Coventry, she discovers that Mam’sel Odieux (the French teacher who bullies her mercilessly), turns out to be a German spy after all. Having exposed the dastardly plot in front of the whole school Felicity—suddenly the school heroine—is carried on the shoulders of all her newly-admiring school friends to be treated to a cream cake tea with the Headmistress. Happy ending and not a backward thought to all the bullying that went before.
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- T
- 04-06-15
Wildly over-rated, poorly narrated
We;;, my female partner sight-read it and I listened. She said it was okay but lacked any surprises. I found the characters hard to empathise with, not a problem in itself, but also hard to believe. Maybe this was partly because the reading irritated me rather than drew me into a fairly run of the mill story line. The actor reading Anna does a particularly poor job in my view, but throughout there are just too many complete failures of getting tone and emphasis right- maybe they didn't understand what they were reading? In summary, not the worst best-seller I’ve listened to recently, but close to it. And if you haven’t guessed, I thought Gone Girl wildly over-rated too.
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- Anita
- 09-02-15
Slow, disappointing and obvious
After reading the reviews I was excited to listen to this book. I'm puzzled by the majority of other people's reviews which describe this as 'fast paced' or 'captivating'. I found the story line one which was obvious, terribly slow and very disappointing. The characters were typical and the layout of the story matched. The only thing I liked was Anna's voice, I found it comical.
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- Phelim
- 27-03-15
Don't Believe the Hype
I was really looking forward to this book, but I genuinely cannot understand how it has received so many good reviews (and there are a lot). I found it to be repetitive, predictable and painfully slow. The outcome was obvious from about half way through, the plot was weak, and the characters wholly unlikable.
I found it ironic that a book which highlighted the dangers of alcoholism had me wanting a gin and tonic just to get through it.
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- RXXXS
- 16-02-15
Slow start, pretty good overall
The different narrators helped to bring the story to life. An entertaining read on my daily train commute through the suburbs...
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- Josie
- 25-02-15
Amazing!
At first I was sceptical... I wasnt too sure what the story was about but probably 20 minutes in you find its hard to stop listening. Loved knowing what each character was thinking, and the depth of each character. Very impressed!
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- Dreaming of Chanel
- 10-05-15
Had me guessing right to the end.
Brilliantly written story. Loved every minute of it, three people telling the story was genius. A great who done it.
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- Kimberley Connery
- 02-10-15
Disappointed.
Thought it would never end. Id heard so many great things and the reality was such a let down. It was too long by far, and needed some serious chapter culling to improve the story's pace. I saw the end coming a mile off, everyone compares it to the twist in Gone Girl, but this was clearly going in one of three directions. The reading voices put me off too, not sure if it was the accents, the intonation or the pacing but it took me awhile to get a feel for the three actresses. I stuck with it expecting a big stunning finale and just ended up disappointed.
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- Lawrie Boyle
- 24-02-16
Difficult to follow track of story
Because the story kept jumping from date to date it was difficult to keep track of time and date, unlike a printed book where you can go back to the start of a chapter and check character, time and date of setting. If the chapter index of this audio version could include this information it would make a vast improvement.
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- Trish, from Oz
- 21-02-16
Loved this book
I really liked that there were 3 separate voices for the main characters. The story was well told. The storyline was gripping, it wasn't until I was 3/4 through that I guessed roughly how it would end. Well worth a listen. I highly recommend this book to those that enjoy crime, mystery with a bit of 'feel good' thrown in.
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- JK1
- 27-11-15
Worth a listen
Off to a slow start, but definitely kept my interest throughout. Picked up a lot towards the end and was quite exciting.
I didn't care for any of the characters, they're all a bit pathetic or crazy.
Great narration.
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- Dani
- 29-04-15
Surprised me
I saw another review for this book, about how it's from the point of view from an alcoholic. So I gave it a go.
It is written from 3 people's perspectives. Two in present time, one in the past. Yes, one is an alcoholic. It is read in 3 different voices, which brings the characters alive and makes it easy to distinguish between them.
It's a mystery. It has suspense. It links, and ties together. It had me guessing, and re-guessing.
I really enjoyed it. It surprised me in a good way :-)
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- Gemma
- 02-03-16
Overall good
Very engrossing, well read aside from the Anna parts, they are frustrating to listen to
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- Michelle
- 22-01-16
Stopped Caring
I stopped caring about the heroine and generally found all the characters unengaging by the end.
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