This is a chilling drama, indescribable in the powerful and emotional depths it plummets the listener into, spiralling from a simple romance into a horrific nightmare as the truth slowly emerges. The focus is on him, but what did she live through? What goes through her mind? Was she aware of the sickness that drove her loving husband to horrible acts against children? Jean Taylor is the woman we see in news reels: stone-faced, hanging off the arm of her husband as he faces trial-by-media for the crime of child kidnapping and possibly worse. Let’s begin with Fiona Barton, a former journalist, who has taken her experiences and developed this devastating insight into those affected by unfathomable personal horror. The only certainty is that The Widow is a compulsory listening experience. kept me on my toes until the end.' Read Fiona Barton's other tantalising thrillers: THE CHILD, THE SUSPECT and LOCAL GONE MISSING - out now.It’s difficult to name the better storyteller: the sensational author Fiona Barton, or reader Clare Corbett, who gives a one-woman, full cast performance. ***** 'The book really got under my skin and had me turning pages at a rate of knots, unable to tear myself away.' ***** 'An utterly addictive read that I couldn't put down.' ***** 'Clever twists and turns. Jean Taylor is going to tell us what she knows. But now Glen is dead and she's alone for the first time, free to tell her story on her own terms.
Jean was married to a man everyone thought capable of unimaginable evil. Until he became that man accused, that monster on the front page.
Glen was all she'd ever wanted: her Prince Charming. But what about her: the woman who grips his arm on the courtroom stairs - the wife who stands by him? Jean Taylor's life was blissfully ordinary.
Suspenseful' Stephen King We've all seen him: the man - the monster - staring from the front page of every newspaper, accused of a terrible crime. THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, AND RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK 'If you liked GONE GIRL and THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, you might want to pick up THE WIDOW by Fiona Barton.
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