Paula Hawkins reveals the pressures after novel The Girl On The Train

'There was a time when I enjoyed talking about books with like-minded people on Twitter, but around 2017 I just couldn’t face it any longer'

Bestselling novelist Paula Hawkins (Phoebe Grigor/PA)

How does an author follow their debut hit? It’s a question Paula Hawkins, author of bestselling novel The Girl On The Train, prefers not to ask herself.

That debut has proved a tough act to follow. It shot to the top of the charts within two weeks of being published in 2015. It’s now published in more than 40 languages and almost 20 million copies have been sold worldwide.