The Almost Widow, Gail AndersonDargatz
The Almost Widow, Gail AndersonDargatz
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The Almost Widow
A Novel

Author: Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Narrator: Erin Bennett

Unabridged: 8 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/09/2023

Synopsis

National BestsellerIf the man you love went missing, how far would you go to find him? Someone is watching Piper, and she thinks she knows who it is: the bushman. But there’s more than one danger lurking in this temperate rainforest. Poachers are taking down old growth trees and jeopardizing plans for a park, a project Piper is passionate about. When she pressures her husband, Ben, a natural resources officer, to identify the culprits, he takes his drone into the wilderness to track them down. And then, just as a snowstorm hits, he goes missing. Refusing to believe her husband is gone, Piper begins a desperate search for him, one that continues long after the rescue team has given up. But as she begins to uncover what really happened to Ben, Piper is pursued by a stalker who may have taken her husband’s life and now threatens to take hers.

About Gail Anderson-Dargatz

GAIL ANDERSON-DARGATZ’s first novel, The Cure for Death by Lightning, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the UK’s Betty Trask Award, the BC Book Prize for Fiction and the Vancity Book Prize. Her second novel, A Recipe for Bees, was nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. The Spawning Grounds was nominated for the Sunburst Award and the Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award and short-listed for the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction. Her thriller, The Almost Wife, hit the Canadian bestseller lists in 2021. She taught for nearly a decade in the MFA program in creative writing at the University of British Columbia and now mentors writers online. Gail Anderson-Dargatz lives in the Shuswap region of British Columbia. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lindsay L

2.5 stars Atmospheric and mysterious! A husband goes missing in the wilderness, leaving his wife and son devastated and desperate to find him. Locals work together to try to find any trace of what happened to him. This was a highly atmospheric, nature focused book. The wilderness theme was strong and......more

Goodreads review by Samantha

One of my favorite writers of all time returns with THE ALMOST WIDOW. Gail Anderson-Dargatz has created an exceptional story of love and resilience; trauma and pain, set against the captivating backdrop of a small wilderness community at odds over its development. Both haunting and hopeful, this gor......more

Goodreads review by Shannon

I really enjoyed this pulse-pounding thriller that sees a wife determined to find her missing husband even when the search and rescue teams have given him up for dead. The Canadian bush setting was great in this book, I liked learning more about that culture and the drone, feral bear and mysterious......more

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