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The Girl on the Train (2015) is a psychological thriller
novel by British author Paula Hawkins.[1] The novel debuted at No. 1 on The New
York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 2015 list (combined print and e-book) dated
February 1, 2015,[2] and remained in the top position for 13 consecutive weeks,
until April 2015.[3] In January 2016 it became the No.1 bestseller again for
two weeks. Many reviews referred to the book as "the next Gone Girl",
referring to a popular 2012 psychological mystery with similar themes and use
of unreliable narrators.[4][5]
By early March 2015, the novel had sold over 1 million
copies,[6] and 1.5 million by April.[7] It has occupied the number one spot of
the UK hardback book chart for 20 weeks, the longest any book has ever held the
top spot.[8] By early August 2015, the book had sold more than 3 million copies
in the US alone, and, by August 2016, an estimated 11 million copies worldwide.[9]
The film rights were acquired by DreamWorks Pictures in 2014
for Marc Platt Productions.[10] The adaptation, starring Emily Blunt and
directed by Tate Taylor, was released on 7 October 2016.
Plot
The story is a first-person narrative told from the point of
view of three women: Rachel, Anna, and Megan. Rachel Watson is a 32-year-old
alcoholic reeling from the dissolution of her marriage to Tom, who left her for
another woman, Anna Watson. Rachel's drinking has caused her to lose her job;
she frequently binges and has blackouts. Frequently, while drunk, she harasses
Tom by phone and sometimes even in person, though she has little or no memory
of these acts once she sobers up. Tom is now married to Anna and has a daughter
with her, Evie – a situation that fuels Rachel's self-destructive tendencies,
as it was her inability to conceive a child that began her spiral into
alcoholism. Concealing her unemployment from her flatmate, Rachel follows her
old routine of taking the train to London every day; her train slowly passes
her old house, which is now occupied by Tom, Anna, and Evie. She also begins
watching from the train an attractive couple who live a few houses away from
Tom, fantasizing about their perfect life together. Rachel has never met them
and has no idea that their life is far from perfect, or that the woman, Megan
Hipwell, helps Anna care for her child.
Megan outwardly seems perfect to Rachel — beautiful,
apparently happy, and married to a handsome, devoted man. However, Megan has a
troubled past that she conceals from everyone who knows her and which gives her
severe insomnia. She secretly finds her life boring and shallow, and escapes
from her troubles by taking a series of lovers. She has sought help by seeing a
therapist, Dr. Kamal Abdic, whom she would like to seduce. Eventually, she
reveals to him a dark secret she has never confided to anyone before.
Anna is young, beautiful, very much in love with Tom, and
happy as a stay-at-home mother to the young Evie. While at first she enjoyed
the idea of parading her conquest of Tom in front of Rachel, as a way to show
that he picked her over Rachel, she eventually becomes furious at Rachel's
harassment of her and her family, and wants to move from Rachel's former house
and report Rachel's stalking to the police. Anna views Rachel as a threat to
her family and home, and particularly dreads Rachel's presence because Rachel
entered their home, picked up Evie, and walked outside with her one day.
One day, Rachel is stunned to see Megan kissing a man other
than her husband. The next day, after a night of heavy drinking, Rachel awakens
to find herself bloody and injured, with no memories of the night before but
certain that she has done something she will regret. Soon, she learns that one
of the top stories of the day is that Megan is missing. Rachel is questioned by
the police after Anna reports having seen her staggering around drunk in the
area the night of Megan's disappearance. Rachel starts to become interested in
the missing persons case. She contacts the police to tell them she thinks Megan
was having an affair, because she was watching her every morning and evening
from the train, and then she contacts Megan's husband, Scott. Rachel lies and
tells Scott she and Megan were friends, and she tells him her thoughts about
the affair. Rachel learns that the man she saw kissing Megan the day she disappeared
was Kamal.
Rachel contacts Kamal, lying about her true identity and
background as part of a ruse to get close to him and learn more about him. She
makes a therapy appointment with him, ostensibly to see if he can help her to
recall the events that happened during her blackout the night of the
disappearance. While Kamal suspects nothing, Rachel begins to gain insights
into her life by speaking with him, inadvertently benefiting from her therapy.
Her connections to Scott and Kamal, though built on lies, make her feel more
important. She ends up not drinking for several days at a time but always
relapses. Meanwhile, she continues to call, visit, and harass Tom and his new
family. Then Megan's body is found; she is revealed to have been pregnant, and
her unborn child was fathered by neither Scott nor Kamal. As Scott discovers
Rachel's lies and lashes out at her, her memories of the night of the incident
become clearer. Rachel remembers seeing Megan get into Tom's car. At the same
time, Anna discovers that Tom and Megan were having an affair.
These associations enable Rachel to trust her own memories
more, and she realizes that many of the crazy things Tom told her she did while
drunk, but that she doesn't remember doing, never really happened. He had been
gaslighting her for years, which affected her belief in herself and made her
question her sanity. Armed with this sad realization, and the knowledge that he
must have been the one who killed Megan, Rachel warns Anna. When Anna confronts
him, Tom confesses to murdering Megan after she threatened to reveal that he
had impregnated her. Anna is cowed, fearful for her daughter's safety. Although
Tom tries to beat and intimidate Rachel into keeping silent, she defies him and
fights back. Knowing he is about to kill her, Rachel stabs Tom in the neck with
a corkscrew. Anna helps Rachel make sure that he dies from the wound. When the
police arrive, former adversaries Rachel and Anna coordinate their stories to
support their actions' having been in self-defence.
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