![]() ![]() Kate decides to surprise her husband John on his arrival home from a business trip to England. Brilliant and beguiling, The Wife and The Widow takes you to a cliff edge and asks the question: how well do we really know the people we love? Set against the backdrop of an eerie island town in the dead of winter, The Wife and The Widow is an unsettling thriller told from two perspectives: Kate, a widow whose grief is compounded by what she learns about her dead husband’s secret life and Abby, an island local whose world is turned upside when she’s forced to confront the evidence of her husband’s guilt.īut nothing on this island is quite as it seems, and only when these women come together can they discover the whole story about the men in their lives. ![]() It’s extremely twisty though and has a mid-way surprise to rival that of Clare Mackintosh’s fabulous I Let You Go. His second novel, The Wife and the Widow offers no snakes. They laughed when I said I was phobic, but it seriously turned me off reading it. I asked someone if snakes really did feature in the novel. Then however White commented on the fact he’d set it in a certain place in America as it was the only place they still trained snake charmers (or something). I liked the premise so decided I’d buy a copy there. I didn’t read it at the time and heard White speak about it at the BAD Sydney Crime Writers’ Festival in early September. Christian’s White’s The Nowhere Child was extremely well received when released in 2018. ![]()
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