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La novel·la per a adults + venuda en – temps en la història dels EUA
2 milions en 3 mesos
Traduïda a 42 llengües
DreamWorks en prepara la pel·lícula


La Rachel agafa cada matí el mateix tren. Sap que cada dia s’atura en un semàfor vermell i que des d’allà veurà els jardins del darrere d’una renglera de cases.
En una d’aquestes cases hi viu una parella que la Rachel no pot evitar mirar cada vegada. Fins i tot els ha batejat, com si els conegués: són la Jess i en Jason. A ella li sembla que tenen una vida perfecta. Tant de bo ella pogués ser igual de feliç que ells.
Fins que un dia veu una escena que la deixa de pedra. Dura només un minut, perquè el tren de seguida es torna a posar en marxa; però n’hi ha hagut prou.
De sobte tot ha canviat. Ara la Rachel té l’oportunitat d’entrar en unes vides que fins a aquest moment només havia mirat de lluny, i no la pensa deixar escapar. S’ha acabat ser només la noia del tren.

«El narrador que millor t’enganya d’aquest any és la protagonista de La noia del tren. Voto per ella.»
The Times

«Hawkins ha escrit un thriller intel·ligent i mordaç que ofereix als lectors una visió de 360 graus del desig, l’amor, el matrimoni i el divorci.»
Good Housekeeping

«Quina col·lecció de personatges, quina situació, quin llibre! És Alfred Hitchcock per a una nova generació.»
Terry Hayes
LanguageCatalà
PublisherLa Campana
Release dateJun 1, 2015
ISBN9788416457014
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La noia del tren
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Paula Hawkins

Abans de posar-se a escriure ficció, Paula Hawkins va fer de periodista durant quinze anys. Va néixer i es va criar a Zimbabwe, però viu a Londres des del 1989. La noia del tren és el seu primer thriller. S’ha publicat arreu del món i DreamWorks n’ha comprat els drets cinematogràfics.

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I listened to the audio version. I'm an older gay man and not particularly politically correct, but the first 250 pages of this book seem to be about how horrible women can be to each other, then the last 50 pages about how horrible straight men can be to women. And the whole thing is about how awful people in London are to each other all the time, and how alienating and depressing it can be (can someone please recommend a novel to me that takes place in London where people are happy and nice to each other sometimes?). As usual, the whole thing pivots on the issues of monogamy and childbearing. The writing is very good, and the narration very talented- couldn't stop listening to it, even though I had no sympathy for a single character (except maybe Kamal or Linda, who is not allowed much of a role). Recommended as a quick read or listen, but not an ounce of joy or enlightenment.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is a hard book to rate. The POV changes every chapter and within each chapter is different dates that are separated between the morning events and the evening events. I sometimes found myself having to flip back and forth between POVs and dates to try and figure out the mystery. I think the story is very well written and the way the dates and POVs are staggered, I found myself just needing to know MORE. I finished the book in about a day and a half (would have been less than that if it wasn't for that blasted thing called work) and once I got towards the end of the book I couldn't put it down because things were happening so quickly. My initial reaction was five stars, but the more I think back on it, I go back and forth between four and five stars. Because of that I will just go to the middle and give this 4.5 stars, which is still a stellar rating nonetheless


    Full review and more at SBSR Book Blog
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Marvelous descriptive prose detailing the thoughts and feelings of one woman on a train. The challenge in reading this book was to untangle memory from imagination and keeping track of whether the main character is in the present, having a flashback, or hallucinating.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Read this in mostly one sitting just to be rid of it. Drunk people, angry people, unfaithful people and psychopaths. It's a depressing mess of a story where I worked out who the killer was less than half way through simply because we'd met all the characters by then and there were no other solutions for Megan's mystery lover except the policeman. Don't get me wrong, I read a book once where it WAS the bloody policeman. That was really terrible.

    I guess it could have been worse but it wasn't any good.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Depressing, unlikeable characters. Fairly suspenseful.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    An intriguing story that keeps piquing your curiosity and making you read just a bit more.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I was on the hold list for this book at the library since it came out, and just got to read it. I wish it was worth the wait, and worth the hype I’d heard in the meantime, but… it’s not. This book falls flat. It’s not a horrible book, and if I hadn’t heard that it was suspenseful and shocking, I might not be as disappointed. But it’s being built up as something it’s not. Rachel takes a train to and from London every day, and, as she passes by the houses, makes up lives for a couple she sees living in her old neighborhood. I had no problem figuring out what Rachel was actually doing on the train, and knew the culprit well before halfway through the book. Nothing about it was shocking or suspenseful. If anything, the book tried too hard to be that way. It was well-written, but frustratingly vague in some areas, and dwelling too long on other matters. It’s a quick read, so if you want to check it out because of the hype, there’s no reason not to. It’s just not what I expected, and not a really great book, period.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    My 15 year old daughter gave me this book as a Christmas present. She is not a big reader, so I think she probably just picked out whatever had the most hype. I liked the way the story started out with us thinking the narrator was pretty normal, and then turning everything on its head when details of her life come out. By the end of the book, I didn't really care for any of the characters. They all have secrets they are keeping. The point of view changes between the women in the story. The time line also changes. I really had to pay attention to each chapter heading to make sure I understood who was narrating and what year it was. I thought the story was pretty good. I read this pretty quickly. When reading, just go along where the story take you and you will enjoy yourself.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I listened to the audio book version of The Girl on the Train. The story really came alive through the narrator. I enjoyed the POVs the story was told from, and the author did a great job making unlikable characters likable. I definitely recommend this audio book!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    3.5 Stars. I'd give the last 60 pages 4 stars. I didn't really like any of the characters and thought they all were capable of murder. It was a page turner with some unexpected twists. I'd certainly recommend it to those that like mysteries.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Very enjoyable book. Rachel watches a couple everyday as she sees them on their terrace and she is on the commuter train. Soon the woman is missing and ends up murdered. Rachel, who drinks to the point of blacking out, can't remember different times in her life. Her ex-husband lives down the road from the couple. Rachel keeps bugging her ex and his new wife and child. She soon gets involved with the couple's lives and the murder investigation and not in a good way. This book had lots of twists and turns and kept me guessing what happened and who killed Megan. It was not who I thought it would be and it was really interesting what all came to light. I kept trying to guess what really happened. I was rooting for Rachel to stop drinking and to get her life together but I was also sad for her that she just couldn't leave her ex-husband alone. It was a little confusing with the story jumping around with the dates. I just gave up paying attention to the dates because I could tell while reading what was going on where we were at in the story. I highly recommend this book.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Uff, don't bother. A poor man's Gone Girl. Also, I really hate it when the culprit gives a long monologue of "How I Did It" at the end. Major eyeroll....
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins. Unsure how I feel about this book. It’s well thought out, decently written, and I can see why it’s had recognition. My personal feelings, however, are I would have preferred this thriller written in third person. First person with multiple viewpoints pulls me out of a story (it’s told by three women) and I wasn’t sure they were distinguishable enough. I guessed the outcome a little over half way through the book, and, though I don’t believe characters should be perfect, that flawed people make for a more interesting read, I found every person in the book thoroughly unlikable so I struggled to care about any of them, and kept searching for more redeeming features. Well plotted and an easy read despite this, but I’m left feeling ambiguous. I want to watch the film, though, to see how they handled the material.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I had a hard time getting into this book and put it aside for a few days before trying again. Once I got a few chapters in, I was hooked.

    The story is told from the perspective of 3 characters. Rachel is the Girl on the Train. She is an alcoholic who is divorced and living with a girl from school. She often experiences blackouts. She travels to London every day for work and passes by her old house. She watches her house, where her ex-husband has remarried and has a child, as well as the house down the road. She imagines the couple who she names, in a happy life.

    Emma, the second narrator is the new wife. She does not like that Rachel calls the house and walks by. She wants Tom to call the police and have a restraining order against Rachel. She is worried for their child.

    Megan, the third narrator. This is the woman who Rachel watches from the train. Her life is not as idyllic as Rachel imagines it to be. When Megan goes missing, Rachel insinuates herself into the life of Scott, Megan's husband and the investigation of Megan's disappearance.

    A great suspenseful story of a disappearance and murder. Often compared to Gone Girl, but I think this was a much better book that I really enjoyed.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This book has been compared to "Gone Girl" but I found that while the characters were dysfunctional and quite repulsive, "The Girl on the Train" lacked the complexity and chilling suspense that "Gone Girl" had. Told from three women's perspective i found the plot was a bit predictable and it was easy to work out who the murderer was. Overall, an okay read, but don't be expecting another "Gone Girl".
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I had a hard time getting into this at first. It took me almost a week to almost get through the first half of the book. The second half really picked up the pace, and it was much more suspensful. I could not put it down and finished the second half in one night.This is one of those books you really need to think about after you are done reading it. I want to see the movie now to help me piece together some of the events that occurred. I have so many questions leading up to that ending.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    All I can say is WOW! I wasn't originally planning on reading this book when it came out because all I read with the description was "another cliche Gone Girl type novel." Well, it was (in fact, Amazon recommended Gone Girl when I finished this book on my Kindle), but it was a very well-written book. I read it fairly quickly, and I still felt like it wasn't fast enough.

    Once you have read several psychological thrillers, they all tend to become similar. Yet, they are still a favorite of mine. I love the heart racing feeling I get when I'm about to find out something new. I love trying to figure out the ending, reading the clues the author is leaving for us, if only you are careful enough to look. To be truthful, I have loved doing this since I read The Catcher in the Rye 10 years ago, it is just a lot more fun with a psychological thriller than a classic American novel.

    My rating is based on the fact that this book actually kept me guessing, that I was hooked from page 2, and that I felt like it wasn't just another cliche book, and actually had a lot of depth and thought put into it. I hesitate to rate if five stars, because something in me just doesn't feel like it was that good, but I also do not know what would make it worth the five star review. Read on if you have already read the book and/or you don't mind potential spoilers.

    ***spoilers below this line***
    I was able to figure out pretty early on that certain character traits about Rachel just didn't add up. For example, she was supposedly a violent drunk, but after we meet her, she seems to only get injured while drunk. Red flag number one. Also, the "unreliable witness" thing was pretty played up, so I knew that some of the details she was walking through with herself had to be true, if slightly altered.

    About halfway through the book, I knew it was someone in *that* house who had committed the crime. I just couldn't figure out if it was angry man or jealous wife. I was actually hoping for the jealous wife, I don't know why. I just thought it would be a nice full-circle type ending to the relationship between Anna and Rachel. But then, I was also hoping for angry man because that would exonerate Rachel's past, and admittedly I was in love with her.

    It was sort of a disappointment to me to realize so early on that it was obviously neither Scott nor Kamal who committed the crime. Neither of them fit the bill, Scott was angry, but we knew Scott was innocent if for no other reason than that would make a horrible story for Rachel to narrate. I almost wish there had been more detail of Rachel and Scott, Rachel and Kamal, flashbacks to Rachel and Tom, something that brought us into Rachel's mind when she was with these three men, something that allows the reader to really feel what she is feeling when she is with them, not just what she is remembering later. I realize that is sort of the point of the book, I mean the woman drinks gin and tonic from a can.

    At the end of the day, I think that Hawkins did a great job crafting this story, and I imagine there are so many details that got scrapped and so much more that the author knew than what made it into the story. I felt like I was watching these people from the train, from the underpass, from wherever, trying to catch a glimpse of their true selves. And they were all just characters in a novel whose stories are over now.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    It is the debut novel by author Paula Hawkins .The story revolves around the lives of three women: Rachel, Anna and Megan.The protagonist, Rachel, is in her early 30s and she is Jobless•Homeless •Alcoholic•Divorced. Even after being jobless, she takes the 8:04 train to the city everyday. The train stops at same signal, from where she can see the house of a couple in her old neighbourhood. She idealises this couple (christened as Jess and Jason) and imagines their life. Her fantasy goes haywire when Jess goes missing.“To have my hopes raised and dashed again, it’s like cold steel twisting inside my gut”.~ Paula Hawkins, The girl on the train.That’s what I felt while reading the first few chapters of the book. If you are someone who likes fast paced novels then you will need a lot of patience to read this as it will pickup the pace only after you are halfway through the book. In the beginning, it will be a bit confusing too and will have to go back to previous pages but once into the book, it will be simply irresistible. The first person narration by the three female characters and their multiple view points on the same scenario makes it quite interesting. The plot is intelligently written with lots of twists and an end that is totally unpredictable.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I read this book over last weekend, starting Saturday afternoon, 8/19/2017, to Sunday morning, 8/20/2017. I cheated and watched the movie with Emily Blunt on Saturday afternoon because the suspense was killing me! The movie and book are somewhat different from each other, but both had me on the edge of my seat, and it was a weekend well-spent. I have no regrets over spending my weekend with these characters and this author, even though the characters were all flawed, and no one in this story comes out smelling like a rose. If you're looking for a fast-paced, suspenseful mystery to read, this book does not disappoint! Read it, you won't regret it.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Riverhead is doing a great marketing job for this book, right down to its very clever cover. But, reader, be warned: after all this hype, THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN may disappoint. While it will keep your attention, it probably won't be as unputdownable as claimed until the last couple of chapters. It wasn't for me.The girl on the train is Rachel. She's a raging alcoholic who has opinions about people that are often based on nothing and are always wrong. The entire book is about her alcoholic blackouts and figuring out what really happened.Some things about this book are aggravating. For instance, during tense moments, characters, especially Rachel, bite their lips, often so hard they draw blood. I could just imagine all the people walking around with bloody mouths they had chewed.The biggest aggravation is difficult to describe without saying too much and spoiling the story. It has to do with how everything is explained in the end. It really wouldn't happen that way and is too hard to swallow.Yet, even considering these and other faults, the book still rates four stars. That is simply because it kept my attention more than books I've rated with three stars.I won this ARC from the publisher and librarything.com.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    **spoiler alert** I enjoyed this book a lot. I loved the fact that the "bad person" wasn't revealed until much, much later in the book....like almost the very end. It constantly kept me wondering who was responsible and how the main character fit into the whole story. At one point in time every character in the story was my main suspect as new and different information was revealed to me. It is a bit slow in pace, but I feel as though it needs to be for the main character's alcohol/memory problems to properly take place. The only thing I didn't really enjoy was the constant alcohol blackouts and self loathing of the main character every time she did drink. I realize that that is probably the reality of an alcoholic, but it was kinda depressing to read those parts when I was pulling for her be strong and resist. So perhaps, in a way, Paula Hawkins succeeded in conveying a clear message to me of what alcoholism looks like. The plot was great and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys a mystery and slight thrill.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Oft touted as a Gone Girl read-a-like, Paula Hawkins' use of unreliable narrators in a female-centric mystery makes this book a verifiable page-turner, though a bit thin on overall plot.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book was recommended if you enjoyed Gone Girl, which really isn't remotely similar, but is equally twisted. I look forward to seeing the movie to see which direction the director went with the story.

    Rachel is a depressed alcoholic still trying to recover from losing her husband to the arms of another woman. She lives in a room at her friends how, where she drowns her sorrows in booze. She pretends each day to go to a job that she lost for being drunk on the job. She rides the train back and forth each day, watching out the windows into the lives of her ex-husband and his new wife, and another couple who lives just down the street from her old life. She has created a faux love story for this couple, and when she observes the wife kissing another man, she is angry and distraught at the betrayal.

    And, then the unthinkable happens...the wife ends up missing and Rachel is determined to figure out what happened.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I don't enjoy stories with unsympathetic characters. I don't enjoy books that go on and on knocking the reader over the head. I finished the book but felt it was a waste of my time
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I loved this book! The main character is an alcoholic psyco woman which adds a lot to this suspense/mystery,. The book is full of lies, murder, affairs and never did have a slow part in the plot, and kept me guessing and second guessing myself throughout the book.. The characters were well developed and I felt like I was living life with each of the characters. I'm usually not much of a murder/mystery type reader. I'm more of a historical fiction type, but this was a great read for me.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I hadn't read the hyped reviews which seemed to produce a backlash of people wanting to rate this book low. I loved it and found it was a real page turner. There isn't one sympathetic character to be found, and the innovative storytelling with multiple narrators checking in mornings and evenings moved things along quickly. The plot was well conceived, though I did guess the outcome, but not until quite late in the story. The Girl On the Train is dark and depressing with enough plot twists to keep you satisfied.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Quick read. Good suspense. Great ending!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Extraordinarily good. Twists, turns, unreliable narrators, builds to a satisfyingly disturbing conclusion.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Took me a bit to warm to the style, but I did. Predictable but still an engaging read.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Rachel Watson follows the same routine every single day without fail. She takes the same commuter train each morning and evening - using the consistency of that routine to numb some of the grief she feels for her recently failed marriage. Each day as she rattles down the tracks to work, she flashes past the cozy stretch of homes in a suburban neighborhood, and stops at the same signal. This routine allows her to slip into a soothing daydream; one that allows her to watch people as they go about their own business during the day.As she sits in the same seat, gazing out of the window at the landscape before her, what she sees next will ultimately change everything. Rachel enjoys her little episodes of people watching; she actually looks forward to seeing some of the same people every single day. As a matter of fact, each time that she stops at the train signal, Rachel watches the same couple eating breakfast on their deck. Their daily morning routine is one which she truly admires, and she has even begun to feel like she knows them.Jess and Jason, as she calls them, seem to have an almost picture-perfect life together. Actually, not unlike the life that Rachel herself once had. So the routine continues day after day, until the day that it changes irrevocably. It only takes a minute before the train moves on, but Rachel sees something so shocking that she cannot keep it to herself.Now that her routine is broken beyond repair, she feels that she must go to the police. But is she as unreliable as they seem to believe? Soon Rachel is deeply entangled; not only in the investigation being conducted by the police but also in the lives of everyone involved. In the long run, has she done more harm than good?Actually, I absolutely loved this book and am delighted to see that it is this author's debut novel. In my opinion, it was well-written and captured my attention right from the beginning. I must say that I thought that the time sequence was slightly unusual, but I certainly appreciated how the author utilized it. I would give this book an A+! and will definitely be putting Ms. Hawkins' name at the top of my wishlist.