This is a very intriguing read, one told from a very unique perspective. The narrator ( Rachel, the girl of the title) is one totally f.....ed up, delusional, drunk, needy voyeur who watches people from a train and makes up tales about their lives. One problem is that one of the families on Blenheim Rd. is her ex-husband, his wife and daughter. Another person is an unfaithful wife who goes missing on the same night Rachel is in the neighborhood and blacks out for hours. For three hundred relentless pages, Rachel makes a total fool of herself, continuously lying to all, trying to see her ex, and interfering in the murder investigation by getting close to the victim's husband and psychologist. The ending is creative enough to make this a bestseller, but it doesn't cut it for me.
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