The Girl on the Train-Paula Hawkins
The pain of losing a spouse is tormenting and soul-crushing. It must feel like the whole world coming down on you. To be left alone in the middle of the road with nowhere to go. Rachel Watson stands on the same crossroads. After going through a harsh divorce, losing your husband to another woman and becoming an alcoholic, all she does is breathing like a living corpse. Every morning she wakes up drunk and sleeps likewise. She never has a sense of space and time, and is so lost in her grief that she is unable to pull herself into reality. She boards the train to London everyday to go to an imaginary job that she was fired from months ago to make her renter/best friend think that she is at least working.
Riding senselessly, across the vast stretching lands day in and day out , she keeps noticing a particular house every day. A joyful couple resides in that house as she sees them on the terrace, embracing hugging and kissing on different occasions. She feels the coldness sinking in as soon as she remembers her time with Scott, her ex-husband. Her old house is next to the couple she stares every day from window of the train. She falters in her mind in between the past and the present with the unknown couple giving her joy as well as misery. She constantly calls Scott , drunk out of her wits. She leaves outrageous voice messages, texts of which she has no memory of when she wakes up the next morning. She curses herself but is unable to leave drinking which is her only solace.
The days go by, but one day things change. She watches the woman kissing some stranger, and a shudder runs through her. Later, she gets to know that a woman named Megan Hipwell is missing. Megan is the same woman, she has been noticing all these months with her loving husband. On the other hand Scott’s new wife Anna is frantic about Rachel and her constant stalking and calling. She despises her husband for being so tolerable of her.
As the story unfolds, Megan is not found for a long time and Rachel feels that she could be useful in this situation. She confronts the police but they do not trust her as she is an alcoholic. She confronts Megan’s husband as well. The book intermingles in between the lives of these three women and how in the end their stories intertwine into one is worth your patience. The book unfolds the misery of losing a spouse for one woman, about one falling for another person but still in love with her husband and about one being sceptical about her family’s protection.
Megan, Anna and Rachel, all three have a story to tell us of betrayal, grief, torment, death and life. Though one may feel a little detached from the book in the start but eventually the mystery will grip you. It surely did me. How well do you know your life partner? Or the question is, do you know them at all? Are they the person at all you are in love with? If you are looking for something emotional spiced up with thriller,crime and mystery, The Girl on the Train can be a good choice to ponder upon. I will give it a 7/10.
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Riding senselessly, across the vast stretching lands day in and day out , she keeps noticing a particular house every day. A joyful couple resides in that house as she sees them on the terrace, embracing hugging and kissing on different occasions. She feels the coldness sinking in as soon as she remembers her time with Scott, her ex-husband. Her old house is next to the couple she stares every day from window of the train. She falters in her mind in between the past and the present with the unknown couple giving her joy as well as misery. She constantly calls Scott , drunk out of her wits. She leaves outrageous voice messages, texts of which she has no memory of when she wakes up the next morning. She curses herself but is unable to leave drinking which is her only solace.
The days go by, but one day things change. She watches the woman kissing some stranger, and a shudder runs through her. Later, she gets to know that a woman named Megan Hipwell is missing. Megan is the same woman, she has been noticing all these months with her loving husband. On the other hand Scott’s new wife Anna is frantic about Rachel and her constant stalking and calling. She despises her husband for being so tolerable of her.
As the story unfolds, Megan is not found for a long time and Rachel feels that she could be useful in this situation. She confronts the police but they do not trust her as she is an alcoholic. She confronts Megan’s husband as well. The book intermingles in between the lives of these three women and how in the end their stories intertwine into one is worth your patience. The book unfolds the misery of losing a spouse for one woman, about one falling for another person but still in love with her husband and about one being sceptical about her family’s protection.
Megan, Anna and Rachel, all three have a story to tell us of betrayal, grief, torment, death and life. Though one may feel a little detached from the book in the start but eventually the mystery will grip you. It surely did me. How well do you know your life partner? Or the question is, do you know them at all? Are they the person at all you are in love with? If you are looking for something emotional spiced up with thriller,crime and mystery, The Girl on the Train can be a good choice to ponder upon. I will give it a 7/10.
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