Will keep you gripped till the end CANDISĪ highly enjoyable first novel. The Widow is generating a huge buzz SUNDAY MAIL Next year’s The Girl on the Train THE BOOKSELLER Gritty, emotional and so believable ESSENTIALSĪ book you’ll drop everything to whip through GLAMOUR

Woman & Homeįeted as this year’s The Girl on the Train OBSERVERĪ cleverly conceived, interesting novel LITERARY REVIEWĪn unsettling, compulsive tale GOOD HOUSEKEEPING M J ArlidgeĪ complex, intriguing heroine and a dark, unsettling story makes this a real page-turner. If you liked GONE GIRL, you'll love this. ‘A brilliant, enthralling debut’ Jill Mansell Gripping and horribly plausible Tammy Cohen LISA GARDNERĪ terrifically chilling exploration of the darkness at the heart of a seemingly ordinary marriage, the life of quiet desperation behind a neat suburban door. Barton carefully unspools this dark, intimate tale of a terrible crime, a stifling marriage, and the lies spouses tell not just to each other, but to themselves in order to make it through. Taylor, author of THE ACCIDENT and THE LIE Read moreĭark, compelling and utterly unputdownable. Read Fiona Barton's other tantalising thrillers: THE CHILD, THE SUSPECT and LOCAL GONE MISSING - out now. ***** 'An utterly addictive read that I couldn't put down.' ***** 'The book really got under my skin and had me turning pages at a rate of knots, unable to tear myself away.' Jean Taylor is going to tell us what she knows. Jean was married to a man everyone thought capable of unimaginable evil.īut now Glen is dead and she's alone for the first time, free to tell her story on her own terms. Until he became that man accused, that monster on the front page. Glen was all she'd ever wanted: her Prince Charming. Jean Taylor's life was blissfully ordinary. We've all seen him: the man - the monster - staring from the front page of every newspaper, accused of a terrible crime.īut what about her: the woman who grips his arm on the courtroom stairs - the wife who stands by him? 'If you liked GONE GIRL and THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, you might want to pick up THE WIDOW by Fiona Barton.

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, AND RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK A loving husband or a heartless killer.she'd know, wouldn't she?

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