"The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps." This story is told from the point of view of three female protagonists, each of whom has a debilitating hold in her life. Rachel, the girl on the train, is a heart broken, disheveled, alcoholic whose ruined marriage and failure to have children haunt her. Anna is the mistress who reined her marriage and had the child with Tom that Rachel so desperately craved. Megan, a lady Rachel views from the train and is the subject of Rachel's fantasies, goes missing, and is brutally murdered. Rachel was drunk the night of the murder and cannot recall what might have happened. Multiple suspects, an intense narrative, vivid characterization, realistic scenarios, and explosive interpersonal relations and reactions make this page-turner an enticing, thought-provoking, empathy-inspiring read.
"There's nothing so painful, so corrosive, as suspicion."
"Life is not a paragraph and death is not a parenthesis."
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