Kate’s husband, John, a Melbourne physician, lies about attending a medical conference in London and turns up dead with his throat cut on Belport. He has inexplicably become secretive and irritable. Abby’s husband, Ray, runs a struggling business maintaining vacation homes. Both women struggle to understand their husbands’ recent odd behaviors. The extroverted Abby Gilpin represents the servant class living year-round on Belport Island, while the more remote Kate Keddie is from the privileged vacationer class. This is otherwise a frank story about two related murders that occur decades apart on a vacation island off the coast of Australia.The narrative employs the perspectives of two women in alternating chapters. The pages to see the clues you’ve missed.White uses a remarkable “What was that?” plot twist in this thriller to elevate it well above its commonplace themes of the destructiveness of hidden family secrets and the price of misguided family loyalty. Have been so blind, and you will find yourself madly scrabbling back through Point when everything will be turned on its head, you will wonder how you could Unsettling read that will keep you guessing all the way through…until a certain To say much more would be a spoiler, but this is an The trail of deception runs deep and nothing is quite what it seems. Independently set out to discover the truth, but in this shape-shifting novel, She discovers evidence that her husband may be a murderer. Abby, an island local, is distressed when Widowed, distraught by grief and by what she learns after her husband’s death about The narrative is told from two perspectives. This small, closed community is the perfect setting for a Of an oily rag, caretaking the shuttered holiday houses of the rich people from During the long winter season, the local residents survive on the smell Tourists for three months of the year, but mostly empty for the remaining nine The story is set on Belport Island, a small community busy with With engaging characters, an intriguing plot and an absolute KILLER twist, The Wife and the Widow ticks all the right boxes for a fascinating crime read and is sure to have book clubs around the country deep in discussion. Christian White’s best-selling debut The Nowhere Child took the world by storm, and his second novel The Wife and the Widow (Affirm Press 2019) is another psychological crime thriller that will have readers on the edges of their seats.
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