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The Girl on the Train: where to start reading
Adapts The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
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1 parts
on screen
1 book
to read
Tracks closely
from the books
After The Film, in the books you are
at The Girl on the Train.
through the end of the novel.
The film adapts the whole of Hawkins's standalone novel. The most visible change is the setting, moved from London to Westchester, New York. It is a self-contained story with no sequel.
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What the movies changed here
- MovedThe story is relocated from London to Westchester, New York.
- ChangedThe lead detective on Megan's case is now a woman, Detective Riley, rather than the book's male detective.
- InventedMartha, a new character not in the novel, is invented to help Rachel see through Tom's lies.
- ChangedRachel and Scott's relationship is kept platonic; in the book it goes further.
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A single 2016 film adapting Paula Hawkins's standalone 2015 novel, moving the setting from London to suburban New York but covering the whole book.
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