The Wife and the Widow

Name: The Wife and the Widow
Brand: Macmillan Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Christian White
ISBN: 9781250261205

Author: Christian White

Narrator: Caz Prescott

Unabridged: 7 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Published: 01/21/2020

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Small Town & Rural, World Literature

Synopsis

The second standalone thriller from the award-winning author of The Nowhere Child, Christian White.

Set against the backdrop of an eerie island town in the dead of winter, The Wife and The Widow is an unsettling 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 when she’s forced to confront the evidence of her husband’s guilt. 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?

About Christian White

Christian White is an internationally bestselling and award-winning Australian author and screenwriter. His debut novel, The Nowhere Child, won the 2017 Victorian Premier's Literary Award and screen rights were quickly acquired by Anonymous Content (US) and Carver Films (Australia). He also co-wrote Relic, a feature film starring Emily Mortimer. Christian lives in Melbourne with his wife and their adopted greyhound.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer on February 25, 2021

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. And this book is impeccable, detailed, surprising, mind-blowing, so smartly written. I wish I had a chance to clone this author’s special gift and brain c......more

Goodreads review by Kylie on January 19, 2020

I was looking forward to reading this book after loving The Nowhere Child, and while I did enjoy it, I don't think it's as good as the author's previous work. We have two women brought together on the island off the coast of Victoria, one grieving the death of her husband, the other wondering what h......more

Goodreads review by Yun on February 18, 2020

The Wife and the Widow is told from the perspective of two women: one whose husband disappears and the other whose husband is hiding a guilty secret. Their alternating viewpoints slowly condense into a single narrative as their stories converge and all their secrets are revealed. I have to say, I was......more

Goodreads review by NZLisaM on March 08, 2020

Absorbing, tense, sent-shivers-down-my-spine, and best of all – an eye-popping twist! Well, Christian White more than led me down the garden path on this one. Bravo! I'm still recovering. Feels like I've been hit by a sledgehammer. I even dreamed of this book last night. And, there were things that r......more

Goodreads review by Paige on November 17, 2019

"If they didn't talk about the monsters in this world, then they wouldn't be ready for them when they jumped out from under the bed." Chapters alternate between The Widow, Kate, and The Wife, Abby. Within the few first chapters, Kate's husband goes missing without a trace. She then finds out he q......more