The book is about three women (Rachel, Anna and Megan) that are connected to a murder of a man, who was found dead on a boathouse.

Rachel is 33-years old alcoholic woman, who is afflicted by broken marriage.

Tom, who is Rachel’s ex-husband, is now married to Anna and lives a happy life with his wife and her daughter Evie.

Anna is proud of her husband and she wants to make Rachel jealous of her, but she doesn’t succeed.

Rachel follows her old habit of taking the train to London and back every day once in the morning and once at the evening.

Her train slowly passes her old house on Blenheim Road, where Tom, Anna and Evie live now.

On the train she meets an attractive couple, who live a few houses away from Tom.

She thinks they are perfect, but is stunned to see the wife, Megan, kissing another man.

The next day, after drinking hard, Rachel wakes up to find herself bloody and hurt with no memory of the night before.

She learns that Megan is missing and is questioned by the police after Anna reports seeing her walking around during night of Megan’s disappearance.

Armed with sad felling and realization that Tom must have been the one to kill Megan, Rachel warns Anna.

When Anna confronts him, Tom confesses killing Megan after she threatened to reveal that he got her pregnant.

Anna is scared and fears fir her daughter’s safety.

Tom tries to overpower and bully Rachel into silence, but she defies him and fights back.

Knowing he will kill her, Rachel stabs Tom in the neck with a corkscrew.

Anna helps Rachel make sure she stabs him to death.

When the police arrives, former adversaries Rachel and Anna support each other by reconciling their stories to explain their actions as self-defense.

Rachel finally breaks free and decides to stop drinking and to move on.

I liked the book very much because it talks about murder and crime.

Ana, 9. r