This is a bestselling thriller. It's written from the viewpoints of three women:
Rachel: a heartbroken alcoholic who's been left by her husband for the woman he had an affair with;
Anna: the 'other woman'; she now lives in Rachel's old house with Tom (now her husband) and their small daughter Evie;
Megan: who lives a few doors down from Rachel's former house, with husband Scott.
Rachel rents a room in her friend Cathy's flat in Ashbury. She commutes to London every day, keeping up the pretense that she has a job, despite being fired for alcoholism months ago. The train passes the gardens of her old street, Blenheim Road, in Witney. She doesn't want to look into her old garden at number 23, but watches the occupants of number 15, Megan and Scott (who she has named Jess and Jason), and imagines them to be blissfully happy. One day, she sees Megan in her garden kissing a man who is not her husband and the next evening Megan disappears. Rachel knows that she was in Witney that evening; she sustained injuries, but suffered one of her alcoholic blackouts and cannot remember what happened. Who can tell her more? - Megan's husband; Kamal Obden, Megan's therapist with whom Megan was having an affair; or the man who was on the train and helped Rachel at the station? While trying to deal with her alcoholism and continuing love for Tom, Rachel begins to get involved to try to solve the mystery. Megan's body is discovered, and Rachel eventually recalls being hit by Tom and Megan getting into his car. At Blenheim Road, she escapes being murdered herself by stabbing Tom with a corkscrew, and she and Anna share a consistent story with the police. Perhaps there is hope for a future without Tom.
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