YOU DON'T KNOW HER. BUT SHE KNOWS YOU.

Rear Window meets Gone Girl, in this exceptional and startling psychological thriller

'Gripping, enthralling - a top-notch thriller and a compulsive read'

S J WATSON, bestselling author of Before I Go To Sleep

Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She’s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. ‘Jess and Jason’, she calls them. Their life – as she sees it – is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy.

And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough.

Now everything’s changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she’s only watched from afar.

Now they’ll see; she’s much more than just the girl on the train…

宝拉•霍金斯 Paula Hawkins

——我对快乐、正常的角色丝毫不感兴趣。

宝拉•霍金斯出生成长于津巴布韦,1989年迁至伦敦。

曾任记者长达15年。定居伦敦后,为了谋生,她曾为人代笔创作都市女性小说。

她每天搭乘伦敦地铁通勤,其他上班族习以为常的经历,却给予她奇妙的灵感,《火车上的女孩》的故事框架由此诞生。

在小说写到一半时,她陷入经济困境,经纪人帮她寄出不到200页的书稿,开始四处寻觅合适的出版社。

出乎意料的是,稿件公开后,引起各国小说编辑的震惊,趋之若鹜,纷纷抛出橄榄枝,砸下重金竞标。

梦工厂更是慧眼识金,在故事还未完结的情况下,就先人一步,果断签下电影改编权。

《火车上的女孩》出版前数月,在英国一年一度的犯罪小说节发送试读本,先期读到的读者,给予了一边倒的如潮好评。

2015年1月,英美同步上市发行,十天内,迅速登上各大排行榜总榜冠军,出版五个月之内,累计销量突破300万,成为2015年现象级畅销书,惊艳全球文坛。

这些意料之外的奇迹,无心插柳的成功,还在不断刷新,继续……