The Girl on the Train racks up express sales of 2m in three months

Paula Hawkins’s acclaimed thriller becomes runaway hit worldwide, outdoing ‘even The Da Vinci Code’ in hardback sales

Readers’ insatiable appetite for the darkest of domestic dramas has sent Paula Hawkins’s very English thriller about a woman who drinks too much, catches a train and sees something she shouldn’t soaring to the top of bestseller charts on both sides of the Atlantic, selling almost two million copies in less than three months.

The Girl on the Train has sold more than 122,000 hardbacks in the UK since 15 January, with digital sales and editions published in the rest of the world taking the total to “approaching two million”, according to UK publisher Doubleday – and the numbers are continuing to mushroom.

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