But lately she finds out her husband was never in that plane and he wasn’t also in London for business trip. One of them is THE WIDOW a.k.a Kate, stay-at-home mother, taking her daughter to the airport to surprise her husband. The story is narrated by two different women. At the end, you’re asking yourself, “who am I, what I am doing here, which year we are in?” and checking yourself several times to make sure you’re okay!Īnd of course the characterization is excellent. Nothing as it seems so prepare to be an April’s fools’woman like me because till the end of the book, twists will keep coming, slap you across the face, tickle you from your stomach and make you lose the rest of your full functioning grey cells.

The structure and the way of telling story is so unique. I fooled too many times during my reading and the spider senses I am proud of were totally useless. It’s impossible to win against him because he is too intelligent. This mean genius author literally plays an unfair game with your mind. I wish I had a chance to clone this author’s special gift and brain cells and have them transplanted into my miserable head! And this book is impeccable, detailed, surprising, mind-blowing, so smartly written. Readers will eagerly await White's next.OMG!OMG!OMG! I’m not a religious person but any example masterpiece writing is a quite definition of finding the real miracle in the earth for me. A clever twist near the end upends the plot's trajectory.

Superior plotting buoyed by strong characters fuel the women's separate investigations as Kate looks into John's activities and Abby wonders why Ray is distant and sad. Supermarket clerk and amateur taxidermist Abby Gilpin is the wife of the title, who lives with her two sulky teenagers and her husband, Ray, a caretaker for the unoccupied holiday houses on Belport Island. Kate soon learns that John never made the trip, and that he quit his health-care job three months earlier without telling anyone then his body washes up on Belport Island, where the Keddies have a vacation home. Wealthy stay-at-home mom Kate Keddie is the widow of the title, a designation she receives shortly after waiting in vain at the airport with her 10-year-old daughter for her husband, John, to return to Melbourne following a business trip to London.

A tragedy and longtime secrets bring together two women from different backgrounds in this stellar family drama from Australian author White (The Nowhere Child).

Christian white the wife and the widow