{"id":27762,"date":"2025-08-28T01:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T01:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/27762\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T01:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T01:51:09","slug":"the-girl-on-the-train-laura-whitmore-shines-in-twisty-boozed-up-whodunnit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/27762\/","title":{"rendered":"The Girl on the Train: Laura Whitmore shines in twisty boozed-up whodunnit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The Irish TV presenter turned actress is terrific in role played by Emily Blunt in hit 2016 film<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Out of control: Laura Whitmore as Rachel in The Girl on the Train\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ir 0T4A0013_Edit.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Out of control: Laura Whitmore as Rachel in The Girl on the Train<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When journalist Paula Hawkins made her first foray into thriller-writing in 2015, her book was a sensation. It\u2019s a tautly written account of an alcoholic woman who is so out of control, she\u2019s not sure what she has seen when she witnesses a crime. It found a ready readership amongst those who thirst for dark scandal behind the twitching curtains of respectable suburbia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It soon morphed into a film starring Emily Blunt, an obvious route for a domestic thriller, and then a play. Irish TV presenter turned actress Laura Whitmore stars as the \u201cmess\u201d Rachel, who spends the play swigging out of an array of vodka and wine bottles, as she turns amateur sleuth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Irish TV presenter turned actress is terrific in role played by Emily Blunt in hit 2016 film&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,22449,2519],"class_list":{"0":"post-27762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-katy-hayes","13":"tag-review-magazine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}