' The Wife and the Widow is one of the most original crime novels of the year and White is clearly a rising international star of the now very vibrant Australian crime fiction scene. Some readers will find the twists fair and others, infuriating, but no doubt all will hang on to discover the ending.' - Kirkus Reviews 'The author does a vivid job of creating real characters and captures the alternately calm and claustrophobic feeling of island life. Fans of White's debut will be pleased with this follow-up.' - Booklist 'White delivers a shocking, excellently executed twist that will have readers reexamining their assumptions this and the sordid details of decades-old misery and fierce parental love make The Wife and the Widow a story to remember. Readers will eagerly await White's next.' - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Christian lives in Melbourne with his wife, filmmaker Summer DeRoche, and their adopted greyhound, Issy. Readers will eagerly await White's next.'Superior plotting buoyed by strong characters.A clever twist near the end upends the plot's trajectory. Christian’s keenly awaited second book, The Wife and the Widow, was published by Affirm Press in 2019 and became an instant bestseller. A clever twist near the end upends the plot's trajectory.

The Wife and the Widow by Christian White is a tale of psychological suspense in an atmospheric small-town setting, with a killer twist. 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. The Wife and the Widow, Book Review: White’s killer twist.

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. The second standalone thriller from the award-winning author of The Nowhere Child, Christian White. Your Web browser is not enabled for JavaScript. 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 Caz Prescott - 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.

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