A complex thriller, with themes of domestic violence, alcohol, and drug abuse, the book became an instant bestseller. Giving up her freelance work to write full-time on fiction, Hawkins ended up borrowing money from her family to make ends meet.īut after only six months, Hawkins finished her novel, and in 2015 The Girl on the Train was published. Eventually, she decided to challenge herself by writing in a darker mode. She wrote four novels, including Confessions of a Reluctant Recessionista, but none ever achieved commercial success. Sometime in 2009, Hawkins began to write romantic comedy under the pen name Amy Silver. She also wrote a financial advice book for women, The Money Goddess. After graduation, she spent 15 years as a journalist - as a business reporter for The Times and later as a freelancer for a number of publications. She later read philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford Unviersity. In 1989, when she was 17, she moved to London to study for her A-Levels at Collingham College, an independent college in Kensington, West London.

Her father was an economics professor and financial journalist. Paul Hawkins was born and raised in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe).

With the same propulsive writing and acute understanding of human instincts that captivated millions of readers around the world in her explosive debut thriller, The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins delivers an urgent, twisting, deeply satisfying read that hinges on the deceptiveness of emotion and memory, as well as the devastating ways that the past can reach a long arm into the present.īeware a calm surface-you never know what lies beneath. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from-a place to which she vowed she'd never return. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl.

They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. Paula Hawkin's addictive new novel of psychological suspense.Ī single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town.

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