Paula Hawkins

Paula Hawkins acted as a columnist for a long time before turning her hand to fiction. Hawkins was brought up in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe). Her dad was a financial matter teacher and money related writer. Before moving to London in 1989 at 17 years old, Hawkins went to Arundel School, Harare, Zimbabwe then examined for her A-Levels at Collingham College, a free school in Kensington. She functioned as a writer for The Times, giving an account of the business. She then worked for various productions on an independent premise and composed a monetary exhortation book for ladies, The Money Goddess. Around 2009, Hawkins started to create lighthearted comedy fiction under the name Amy Silver, written work four books including Confessions of a Reluctant Recessionista.

Her top-rated novel The Girl on the Train (published in 2015), was a perplexing thriller, with subjects of aggressive behavior at home, liquor, and medication abuse. The novel took her six months, composing full-time, to complete, when she was in a troublesome money related circumstance and needed to obtain from her dad to have the capacity to finish it. The novel was adjusted into a film in 2016. She resides in South London. At the point when Paula Hawkins initially touched base in London, at 17, she invested a ton of energy gazing into other individuals' homes from the District Line. She'd experienced childhood in Zimbabwe and had never been on open transport until she made her first trip on the over ground extend from Putney Bridge to Earls Court.

The entire experience of twisting past back patio nurseries and open windows was 'totally outsider' however by one means or another consoling. A huge number of London workers have invested red-flag energy in the comparable hypothesis, however, none have made their sit out of gear meddlesome nature pay off so fantastically. Hawkins' threatening thriller The Girl on the Train — which relies on a female worker's fixation on a couple she witnesses day by day from the 8.04 from a Buckinghamshire suburbanite town to Euston — is the distributing wonder of the year. The thriller has been at the highest point of the UK smash hit graphs since January, with a duplicate sold like clockwork. 'It's strange, would it say it isn't? Bonkers!' says Hawkins, charmingly stunned by the size of its prosperity. Still, similar to a lot of overnight triumphs, she put in a ton of basis. She moved to England looking for better open doors in 1989. She then put in 15 years as a monetary columnist.