Chloe Catchpole Published Date Wednesday, October 5, 2016 - 05:37

Paula Hawkins' watercooler thriller The Girl On The Train garnered stratospheric readership upon its release back in early January 2015, the immersive page-turner rapidly became the most scintillating whodunit since Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl (to which it's frequently compared).

Every tube car, street corner and airport lounge saw a sea of nose-deep bibliophiles eagerly consuming Hakwins' source novel which eventually amassed sales of 11 million worldwide. Rattling along the idyllic outskirts of middle class suburbia (on the Metro North Line), anguished divorcee Rachel Watson (Emily Blunt) silently sups from a vodka filled beaker whilst vigilantly gazing at the white picket houses of her former neighbourhood during the twice daily Manhattan commute (the locale of the film switching from London to New York).

Weaving a three strand narrative, The Girl On The Train utilises the untrustworthy testimony of a flawed trio: alcoholically reliant Rachel,...