IN CONVERSATION WITH Paula HAWKINS

‘I’m fascinated by the way people do their best to recover’

Best known for her global phenomenon The Girl on the Train – later turned into a film starring Emily Blunt – Paula Hawkins returns with A Slow Fire Burning. Exploring how far people will go when put in extreme circumstances, we meet Laura, a character who has been judged most of her life, which is all too evident when she finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I had been thinking about her for a  while – a woman who has disinhibition (basically, saying or doing something without thinking about