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Into the water hawkins5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() "Having to drop everything to run off and talk about your old characters. "I write best when I can immerse myself in a book, and in the characters," she tells me. She's happiest when she's just left alone to write, and alone time can be scarce when you're a number one bestseller. She says the huge success of The Girl on the Train hasn't really changed her, but it hasn't been easy, either. Hawkins is about to publish a new book, Into the Water, about a small English town with a sinister history of drowned women. So how do you follow up that kind of smash? A tense domestic thriller with a boozy, unstable narrator, it caught the imagination of a reading public desperate for the kinds of dark deeds and desperate women Gillian Flynn pioneered in Gone Girl a few years earlier.īack then, Hawkins was down on her luck after a string of unsuccessful romantic comedies written under a pen name - now, she's one of the highest-paid authors in the world. ![]() Paula Hawkins' 2015 book - The Girl on the Train - was a massive bestseller. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Into the Water Author Paula Hawkins ![]()
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