Christian White
ASIN : B07XZ1P2JR
Released: 2019
About
Set against the backdrop of an eerie island town in the dead of winter, The Wife and the Widow is a mystery/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 down when she’s forced to confront the evidence that her husband is a murderer. But 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. 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?
My Review
Thoroughly gripping. An ending I didn’t see coming.
Twists and turns, time shifts and complicated families. White has compacted it all into 331 pages of intense reading.
Abby and Kate both likeable characters, from ver different backgrounds. Abbys hobby of Taxidermy told in pretty, well not really pretty, but graphic detail had me skipping a few words so as not to give my imagination to much to visualise.
It flows so well that quite a lot of the time I thought Abby and Kate where on the same time line but then Abby suddenly time shifts and the story starts to unfurl.
Two young boys , friends, one mistake, a cover up and two wives thrown headlong into the fall out.
