The Girl on the Train - A 15-minute Summary & Analysis

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The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins is a psychological thriller that tells the story of three women and how their lives intersect.

Rachel Watson is an alcoholic. Rachel often drinks to excess and experiences blackouts. She was fired from her job because of her drinking. Afraid to tell Cathy, her roommate, the truth, Rachel continues to take the train from Ashbury to Euston each workday morning and back again, as if she were still employed. She likes riding the trains. While on her twice daily trip, she often imagines what the lives of the people the train passes are like. She watches one particular couple along her route who happen to live four doors down from Rachel’s ex-husband, Tom, his new wife, Anna, and their baby girl. 

Megan is the name of the woman Rachel watches. A year earlier, Megan began suffering from panic attacks and insomnia…

 

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23 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 4, 2015

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With Instaread, you can get the summary and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, summarize and analyze it for your convenience.

Reviews

[Vicky · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not my type of a book. Here is an attempt to recreate the success of the Gone Girl. As I did not find the Gone a Girl such a brilliant book , I enjoyed the other one even less. It proved to me that the current mysteries are always written by a formula, the characters are lacking , the plot is superficial and the murderer is always the least suspected. There was not any thrill in waiting for the final answer, only boredom and the repetitiveness of a story. This one put me off mysteries and thrillers for a long time.

[Djdee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really enjoyed it. It has been compared to gone girl but much better in my opinion!

[Kathy Roling · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found it hard at first to feel anything for Rachel, Megan or Anna, but midway in the book I was hooked. Good, good book

[Pol4u Easley]

It was almoat like an Albert Hickcokian novel. There was a lost of misuse of names. This was not an easy book to read. You had to keep up the names of the people involved in the story.