![]() Also populating Hawkins’ narrative coterie are Nel’s snarky daughter Lena, her estranged sister, a psychic, a tough school principal and Katie’s resentful mother. Nel had been writing a history of the infamous drowning pool, which didn’t endear her to the rest of the town. ![]() ![]() In Part 1, Section 1, spanning from pages 5-60, the novel begins in 2015 from the perspective of Jules telling the reader she had just learned of her a woman named Nel going in the water and that she has to. The deceased: a teenager named Katie and her best friend’s mother Nel. Before Part 1, the novel starts with a story about the drowning of a woman named Libby from the perspective of The Drowning Pool. ![]() But when two women die within months of each other, people begin to suspect foul play. Into the Wateronce again throws a group of women together, this time in the English village of Beckford, where a riverbank cliff and the “drowning pool” beneath make for a popular suicide spot. Though it doesn’t have “girl” in the title, Hawkins‘ new book is in the same vein. (O.K., that last one’s not real - yet.) These books center on complicated, flawed or unlikable female protagonists, boldly going where so many males have gone before. Paula Hawkins rode to fame on her 2015 hit The Girl on the Train, a book that deftly deploys the “girl” thriller subgenre that includes Gone Girl, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Before, The Girl from Home, The Girl on the Bridge and The Girls on the Bus Go Round and Round. ![]()
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