reviews of into the water by paula hawkins

After Louise leaves, she tells Jules that it was Nel who made the threat.Įrin learns that Nel and Sean had a relationship. Louise confronts Lena for keeping the information from her, and Lena tells her she threatened Katie to end her relationship with Mark. Josh tells Sean that Mark seduced Katie, and Lena reveals that Katie sacrificed herself to protect Mark from being arrested for unlawful intercourse. Josh and Lena breaks his windows as revenge for Katie's death. Mark Henderson, Lena's teacher, finds Nel's bracelet in Helen's drawer while searching her room. But it turns out that Katie asked Lena to buy her the pills. Louise finds diet pills prescribed to Nel among Katie's belongings and tells Sean that Nel's murder should be made public. Jules searches for her mother's bracelet which Nel wore all the time and is shocked to find that it is missing. Her son Josh, however, is terrified that his mother was not at the house when Nel died. Louise, Katie's mother, was relieved that Nel died as she holds her responsible for inspiring girls to become curious about the Drowning Pool. Helen Townsend stays at her father-in-law Patrick's cottage as her husband betrayed her. Detective Sergeant Erin Morgan sensed Sean's distress in the case and found out that his mother also committed suicide in the Drowning Pool.

Jules informed Detective Sean Townsend about this. She heard fear in Nel's last voicemail, imploring Jules to meet her.

Jules does not believe that her sister committed suicide. Lena blamed her friend Katie's death on her mother's obsession with the pool.

Lena believes that her mum jumped into the Drowning Pool, a place where multiple women throughout the town's history have died. Lena is furious at Jules for not speaking to her mum. Nel assumed that Jules had seduced her boyfriend Robbie even though he was sexually abusing Jules. Jules had been estranged from her sister Nel due to an incident from their childhood. The novel is told in a mixture of first-person and third-person narrative. Plot įollowing the unexplained death of her sister, Nel, in a pool at the foot of a cliff, Jules Abbott returns to Beckford, a fictional town in Northumberland, to care for her niece, Lena. In February 2017, before the book was first published, Variety reported that DreamWorks' parent Amblin Partners purchased the film rights, with La La Land 's Marc Platt and Jared LeBoff proposed as producers.

Several critics were confused by the plethora of characters (the story is told from the viewpoint of 11 characters) and the similarities of their voices. It is Hawkins' second full-length thriller following the success of The Girl on the Train.Īlthough the novel performed well, becoming a Sunday Times best seller and featuring on The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 2017, critical reception was generally not as positive as it had been for her debut thriller. Into the Water (2017) is a thriller novel by British author Paula Hawkins.

Reviews of into the water by paula hawkins