![]() ![]() Rather than digging into the lives of a few characters, Hawkins throws her net across an entire town. In contrast to the three narrators of Girl, Into the Water has at least 11. ![]() There’s no simple, one-line description for Hawkins’s follow-up, Into the Water, released two years after The Girl on the Train, when the author might have been still lounging around on the riches earned from global sales of 18m copies. ![]() It’s easy to tell people about it’s easy to imagine ourselves into the heroine’s situation. But perhaps it has something to do with the apparent simplicity of its concept – a woman who drinks too much sees something she shouldn’t have from a train window. It can’t all be attributed to the magic of the now-ubiquitous “girl” in the title. It was a beautifully twisty, chilling thriller, but so were many others published in 2015. I t’s impossible to pin down the alchemy that turns a novel like Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train into an unstoppable bestseller. ![]()
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