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The same year, in November 2016, Paula Hawkins was listed as one of BBC’s 100 Women. The year’s theme was Defiance for Womankind. This listing recognizes her impact and influence in the literary world. Paula Hawkins currently lives in central London. Why did The Girl on the Train Make Such a Big Splash After Publication?
The Girl on the Train. Website. paulahawkinsbooks.com. Paula Hawkins (born 26 August 1972) is a British author best known for her top-selling psychological thriller novel The Girl on the Train (2015), which deals with themes of domestic violence, alcohol, and drug abuse. [1][2] The novel was adapted into a film starring Emily Blunt in 2016. [3]
Sep 22, 2021 · Carla and her husband Theo, a famous crime novelist, split after their son died and now live in separate grand houses near the canal. Theo is being hounded by a woman named Miriam, who furiously believes he has plagiarised her memoir. She too lives on a (nicer) houseboat: Daniel has moved on to a boat next to hers.
Aug 24, 2021 · Paula Hawkins. When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women who knew him. Laura is the troubled one-night-stand last seen in the victim’s home. Carla is his grief-stricken aunt, already mourning the recent death of yet another family member.
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About three months after its release in 2015, the novel sold over one million copies. Three women narrate the story from their perspectives. The main narrator, Rachel Watson, is a divorced alcoholic with the most unstable account. Rachel’s alcoholism leads her to lose her job, yet she follows her old routine of taking a train to London and back. Sh...
After the success of‘The Girl on the Train,’this novel was published. It became a Sunday Times Bestseller and got featured on The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 2017. The plot follows the town of Beckford, well known to possess a pool where many people have died over the years. After the unexplained death of Nel Abbott, her sister Jules Abb...
This contemporary murder mystery is Paula Hawkins’s third major work written under her real name. Similar to earlier books, ‘A Slow Fire Burning’ uses many points of view, and the narrators are mostly unreliable. The book delves into the persistent effects of different tragedies experienced by three strangers. When Miriam, a neighbor, finds the dea...
Under the pen name, Amy Silver, Hawkins published this book in 2009. The story is of Cassie Cavanagh, who is content with being a Personal Assistant. She is in a romantic relationship with a man who buys her gifts, and she can afford to be extravagant. Unfortunately, however, Cassie becomes redundant from work and is in debt. Also, she loses her bo...
May 2, 2017 · Author photo by Alisa Connan. Cody Delistraty | Longreads | May 2017 | 8 minutes (2,228 words) Born in Zimbabwe on August 28, 1972, Paula Hawkins’ family moved to London when she was a teenager. Although writing fiction interested her in her younger years, her stories generally remained unfinished. After graduating from Keble College, Oxford ...
Now Hawkins is in Harrogate at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival to publicise her latest offering, A Slow Fire Burning, which focuses on a group of disparate souls following a murder on a canal in Clerkenwell, London.
