They talk about running away together.ĭuring one of her train rides, Rachel sees Megan kissing another man on the balcony. Megan decides to go to counseling and begins having an affair with her therapist, Kamal. For a short time, Megan works as a nanny for Tom and Anna. Her husband, Scott, works in the technology industry and worries about her. She’s a person who longs for highs in her life and can’t bear the current boredom. Megan (known to Rachel as “Jess”) is depressed and restless after her gallery closes down. The story switches perspectives often, and readers also get Megan’s story. Tom and Anna demand that she stop harassing them. Once, she even went to his house and picked up the baby while Anna was napping. Sometimes, after too much alcohol, she calls Tom late at night. She nicknames them Jess and Jason and always enjoys catching a glimpse of them in their seemingly perfect life. Every day, Rachel sees a couple at the house a few doors down from Tom’s. She started drinking, and Tom would always tell her the next day about the horrible things she’d done while drunk. Rachel couldn’t have children, which she believes started the downward spiral in their marriage. The train stops at a station that overlooks her old home, where her ex-husband Tom now lives with his wife, Anna, and the daughter he and Anna had together. Even so, she rides the commuter train to London every day. Rachel Watson has lost her husband, her home and now, her job.
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