Borrowed and the best

Roisin O’Connor 

Paula Hawkins’ best-selling novel The Girl On The Train was the most-borrowed library book in the yea 2015-16, it has been revealed. The thriller was borrowed 72,827 times between July 2015 and July 2016 - or around 200 times per day.

The book has sold 15 million copies around the world and been turned into a major film starring Emily Blunt.

Hawkins said, “As a voracious reader possessed of a fevered imagination, my childhood visits to the library were a thrill. I credit those weekly trips with making me the reader — and the writer — I became, so I could not be more delighted to discover that The Girl on the Train was the most borrowed book from UK libraries last year.”

The Girl On The Train was hailed as “the new Gone Girl”, and was the biggest adult fiction title, selling 1.1 million copies for £5.3m.

— The Independent