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 s...