The widow

Format:

Book (large print)

Title:

The widow

Author:

Barton, Fiona author

ISBN:

9781628999235

Edition:

Center Point Large Print edition.

Publication:

Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2016.

Physical Description:

415 pages (large print) ; 23 cm

Series title(s):

Kate Waters ;

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Summary:

"After her husband dies, Jean Taylor tells her story about the crime her husband was suspected of committing in this thriller that is equal parts psychological suspense and searing examination of the dark spaces that exist between a husband and wife"-- Provided by publisher.

Subject(s):

Family secrets -- Fiction.

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Summary

When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor changed into a woman with the ability to carry on when bad things began to happen. But that woman's husband died last week, and Jean doesn't have to be her anymore. There's a lot Jean hasn't said over the years about the crime her husband was suspected of committing. She was too busy being the perfect wife, standing by her man while living with the accusing glares and the anonymous harassment.Now there's no reason to stay quiet. There are people who want to hear her story. They want to know what it was like living with that man. She can tell them that there were secrets. There always are in a marriage. The truth - that's all anyone wants. But the one lesson Jean has learned in the last few years is that she can make people believe anything...

Author Notes

Fiona Barton trains and works with journalists all over the world. Previously, she was a senior writer at the Daily Mail, news editor at the Daily Telegraph, and chief reporter at the Mail on Sunday, where she won Reporter of the Year at the British Press Awards.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

New York Review of Books Review

THE WIDOW, by Fiona Barton. (Berkley, $16.) After her husband dies in a gruesome accident, Jean, this debut novel's namesake widow, is thrust again into the spotlight. Her husband had been a chief suspect in a missing child case that captivated the country, and his death has renewed interest in the crime. With some reporters suspecting Jean knows more than she has let on, she seems poised to reveal her story. THEIR PROMISED LAND: My Grandparents in Lnve and War, by Ian Buruma. (Penguin, $17.) Drawing on thousands of his grandparents' letters, Buruma sketches the story of their marriage, which spanned World War I and II - and the turbulent era in which they lived. His is a "wholly understanding, moving account of what it meant to be Jewish and English in one of the most troubled times of the last century," our reviewer, Nick Fraser, said. CARRY ME, by Peter Behrens. (Anchor, $17.) The troubled times framed by war are also the backdrop for Behrens's novel, which tells the story of Billy Lange and Karin, the GermanJewish woman he loves. Growing up in England and Ireland during World War I, Billy saw his father, a German, interned, and felt the deep isolation that accompanies discrimination; later, living in 1930s Frankfurt, he dreams of escaping with Karin to America, whose allure is a bright spot amid Hitler's rise to power. IN EUROPE'S SHADOW: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond, by Robert D. Kaplan. (Random House, $18.) Kaplan first visited Romania more than three decades ago as a young journalist, reporting on the horrors under its repressive government. Drawing on his reporting from later trips, he traces Romania's shift away from Communism, and attempts to untangle the country's myriad influences, from Orthodox Christianity to contemporary Russia. CAST OF CHARACTERS: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of The New Yorker, by Thomas Vinciguerra. (Norton, $18.95.) In this ensemble biography, Vinciguerra chronicles the early years of the magazine, roughly spanning the Jazz Age through the end of World War II, with a focus on how many of its editorial stars shaped the The New Yorker's legacy for decades to come. GIRL THROUGH GLASS, by Sari Wilson. (Flarper Perennial, $15.99.) The choreographer George Balanchine's long shadow is evident in the stories of 11-year-old Mira, a ballet student in 1977, and Kate, a present-day dance historian. As our reviewer, Namara Smith, put it, the novel is less about ballet "than the costs of early virtuosity - the feeling of being propelled by a force you don't understand and can't control."