The following podcast contains explicit language.

Welcome to the Slate Audio Book Club's discussion of The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins.

I'm Dan Cois. I'm Slate's culture editor, and I'm here in Slate's DC Recording Studio.

Joining me here is Katie Waldman, who is Slate's words correspondent.

Hi, Katie.

Hey, Dan.

And joining us from our New York studio is brand new Slate Senior Editor and brand new

Audio Book Club member, Laura Bennett. Hi, Laura.

Hi, Dan.

So, as always, with the Audio Book Club, we urge you to read the book first and listen to

us after because we will be

spoiling everything that happens in the book. In this particular, there are a lot of twists and

turns that we will be discussing. We will gleefully be dissecting these twists and turns. So if you

are a person who cares about spoilers, you should read the book now and then come back. If you're a

person who doesn't, who just wants to know what actually happens in this book that everyone is reading, then go on ahead and listen.

The Girl on the Train is a twisty British thriller about a woman's disappearance in a London

suburb. It's told through scrambled chronology and three women's points of view. Those three women are,

one, Rachel, an alcoholic divorcee, who watches a

certain happy couple through the window of her train every day as they stand in their back garden.

Megan, the wife of that seemingly perfect happy couple. And Anna, the woman who replaced Rachel

in her marriage a few years ago. When Megan

disappears, Hawkins uses her three narrators, each of whom know different sides of the story, and each of

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